OpenAI and Peter Thiel Just Joined a $45 Million Bet on a Brain Implant That Fights Cancer

OpenAI and Peter Thiel Just Joined a $45 Million Bet on a Brain Implant That Fights Cancer

Here’s why big tech companies are throwing money behind brain implants.

Peter Thiel, OpenAI fund back Queenslander’s brain tech start-up

An ambitious project by Australian Elise Jenkins has attracted money from Silicon Valley royalty to develop technology it says could sit inside the brain and zap cancer.

OpenAI Invests in Startup That Uses Brain Implants to Detect Cancer

It’s the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data.

OpenAI Startup Fund Co-Leads $45 Million Round for Coherence Neuro

The funding will support development of SOMA, a proposed long-term brain cancer implant. Coherence’s human study so far uses a separate temporary surgical probe.