Two Musk Companies Land Near Top of Austin's First Deep Tech 50: Neuralink #3, Boring Co #4
XFreeze · x · 2026-10-09
Austin's first Deep Tech 50 list places two Elon Musk companies near the top: Neuralink at #3 and The Boring Company at #4.
- Neuralink builds brain-computer interfaces letting people with paralysis control computers with their thoughts
- The Boring Company builds tunneling systems and underground transportation infrastructure
The two operate in completely different industries with completely different engineering challenges, yet both push the frontier of what technology can do.
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