The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces

2026-03-09 · 3 company · 4 thematic

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Max Hodak is the founder of Science, a brain-computer interface company developing the Prima retinal prosthesis (restoring form vision in clinical trials), bio-hybrid neural interfaces, and portable perfusion technology. He co-founded Neuralink in 2016 after an email from Sam Altman connected him with Elon Musk. Previously founded Transcriptic, a robotic cloud laboratory. Holds a biomedical engineering degree and has worked on primate BCI research since 2008.

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“So it's a little chip, a tiny little 2 mm by 2 mm silicon chip that's implanted in the back of the eye under the retina that is a tiny little array of essentially solar panels... we finished a big clinical trial last year which was publish…”

—max hodak

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The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces

2026-03-09 · 3 company · 4 thematic

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max hodak

quote

“So it's a little chip, a tiny little 2 mm by 2 mm silicon chip that's implanted in the back of the eye under the retina that is a tiny little array of essentially solar panels... we finished a big clinical trial last year which was publish…”

—max hodak

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