Neuralink's origin: Musk asked 'how fast can you type' in a Hong Kong Model S, ex-Tesla president reveals
chrisfleck · x · 2026-11-11
Former Tesla President Jon McNeill recounts how Neuralink began: landing in Hong Kong en route to China, Musk asked him his typing speed from the back seat of a Model S — working out phone input at 18 words/minute vs 60-70 on a keyboard, concluding "this device has slowed the input into the machine." Musk immediately requested papers from top brain-computer interface researchers and met them the next week.
Quoted in the same post, Bill Ackman says BCIs will let the blind see again within "not too many years," revealing his daughter — who lost 98% of her vision from optic nerve damage — is regaining speech and mobility, and that he has been meeting with multiple BCI companies in recent months.
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