Protocol Labs' Juan Benet: BCI is where AI was in 2019, before ChatGPT changed everything
juanbenet · x · 2026-10-31
Protocol Labs founder Juan Benet, announcing his neurotech fund PLC Neurotech, argues brain-computer interfaces are at the same inflection point AI occupied in 2018-2019, before ChatGPT changed everything.
- In 2010-2011 he was laughed at for saying AGI was 10-20 years out; today the same skeptics claim AGI is already here.
- He sees BCI following the same trajectory: core companies formed, devices implanted in patients, some entering the market and turning on revenue.
- Investing in neurotech since 2021 across BCI, NeuroAI, and connectomics, he believes the field will restore lost functions, enhance human capabilities, and redefine what it means to be human.
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