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dj seo

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Co-founded Neuralink with Elon Musk in 2016; PhD from Berkeley in miniaturized low-power electronics; previously at Caltech; leads the company's engineering across implants, surgical robotics, and neural decoding.

1 call·1 name·100% bull·last heard 4 months ago·Sequoia Capital
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Neuralink's vertical integration and scale-first strategy enables inevitable BCI ramp

Building surgical robots, factories, and full-stack infrastructure from day one creates a fast iteration loop that looks slow initially but ramps massively once the iceberg surfaces; scale in the world of atoms makes the impossible inevitable.

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HIGHdj seo·Sequoia Capital·4 months ago·Neuralink's DJ Seo: Inside the Race to Connect Brains and AI· position
Neuralink's vertical integration and scale-first strategy enables inevitable BCI ramp
Building surgical robots, factories, and full-stack infrastructure from day one creates a fast iteration loop that looks slow initially but ramps massively once the iceberg surfaces; scale in the world of atoms makes the impossible inevitable.
"we we had scale in mind. We had not just the device, but all of the infrastructure around it to be able to do the surgery, do the deployment, build, you know, really, really hard…"
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Brain-Computer Interfacestailwind
BCI-AI convergence will enable direct high-fidelity concept transfer bypassing language
Transformer architectures can learn latent manifolds of neural systems; with sufficient electrode scale and neural data, AI becomes an exocortex enabling uncompressed multimodal concept transfer — the 'I learned kung fu in the Matrix' scenario — moving beyond legacy keyboard/mouse/language interfaces.
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Robotics & Physical AItailwind
Surgical robotics make BCI implantation scalable to LASIK-level deployment
Neuralink's custom surgical robots automate the unforgiving world-of-atoms challenge of electrode insertion, turning a bespoke neurosurgery into a scalable, repeatable procedure — the key hardware enabler for millions of implants.
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AI Infrastructuretailwind
Neural foundational models emerging from scaling neural data with transformer architectures
At just 20 patients, Neuralink is already seeing counterintuitive patterns from fine-tuning state-of-the-art LLMs on neural data; the same scaling laws driving AI progress apply to neural decoding — more electrodes, more patients, more data makes breakthroughs inevitable.