‘Doctrine of the Mean’: How US Lost a 2-Decade Race to China in Brain Implants

‘Doctrine of the Mean’: how US lost a 2-decade race to China in brain implants

China scores commercial-use approval for implantable brain-computer interface making it the first invasive device available outside trials.

China approves the world’s first commercial brain implant, leaving Neuralink behind

For the first time in history, a brain-computer interface has crossed the threshold from experimental device into commercial medical product. The technology that achieved it does not come from Silicon Valley or a Musk-backed laboratory. It was built in Shanghai, approved in Beijing, and it works by sitting gently on the surface of the brain rather than plunging into it — a design choice that turned out to be as strategically decisive as it was m…