A difference in company philosophy: Neuralink: put wires on brain. Cortical Labs: grow brain on wires. Cortical Labs just completely changed my dreams and nightmares. Here it is in Hon Weng’s hotel room. He is showing this off tomorrow at a brain conference in San

This looks like extremely advanced technology to me. Makes semiconductor circuits, etched on solid "rocks", look like they from the stone age.

.Sequoia Capital is this incredible place where innovation and the relentless pursuit of excellence is a constant. Each of its stewards have had a tremendously positive impact on its success. Roelof Botha made everyone in the partnership a better investor. Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will

Electricity output is the single best proxy for industrial capacity

QOTD: "There are now a record 108 long and 31 short tech-related leveraged ETFs, 139 in total. This is 3 TIMES more than the 2nd largest sector, financials, with 47 total funds. By comparison, Consumer Discretionary has 44 ETFs, while Communication Services has 34 ETFs. In other

Very early on in training, but it seems like the cells can pick up on the general features/some movement in the video. Will release the full code once I've worked out a way to improve the fidelity of the output. Currently, the main problem is that the spikes inherently do not

JUST IN: Petri dish of human brain cells grown on a microchip has learned to play DOOM.

We’re spending $200B+ a year on data centers to power AI. One company raised $11M, grew human brain cells on a chip, and the cells taught themselves to play a 3D shooter in a week. Cortical Labs grew 200,000 human neurons on a silicon chip and taught them to play Doom. The cells

QOTD: "The winners are not always the smartest, the fastest, or even the most correct at the beginning. They are the ones who stay alive long enough to learn" — Alfred Lin

I'm incredibly proud to announce the launch of the Cortical Cloud today and the establishment of the world's first Biological Data Centre here in Melbourne with 120 Internet connected CL1 units for researchers and developers to access anywhere in the world. To add to this

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Doesn't 100x seem closer to the new floor Nikunj Kothari? Based on what you've heard from folks do you feel that is right? The real question, how do we measure this?

QOTD: "This is going to be a really hard time for a lot of people because identity functions have been erased, and the hard thing is, it's not just software developers. It's people managers as well. If your identity function is managing people, you need to make adjustments. You

the male urge to build a GPU cluster at home

There's an engineer on YouTube building his own room-scale laundry-picking UFO catcher robot out of QR codes and string, it's one of the most compelling robotics demos I've seen in a while.

What a time to be alive! You can choose to be scare and anxious (which you should be), or you can choose to be excited and best prepared (which you should be). The choice is yours….

Can you pick the difference?

I have re-established my faith in humanity!