The company, whose name will be Neuralink and will work on the development of brain implants and carriers of memories and thoughts that one day will blur the boundary between man and machine.
The "neural lace" Musk has talked about is typically described as an implant or an appendage that would be attached to the brain, that would provide a way for brains to interact with devices, or otherwise augment human intelligence.
Musk said implanting it might not require extensive surgery, remarking that it could be injected into the veins.
he Journal reports that one of Musk's co-founders at Neuralink is Max Hodak, who co-founded a company called Transcriptic. Hodak's bio at the Transcriptic website says he was a "research assistant at Duke University Medical Center, where he built brain-machine interfaces for monkeys.
In addition to his responsibilities running Tesla and SpaceX, Musk has taken a keen interest in artificial intelligence, which he has at times characterized as a potential threat to the survival of the human species.
Source CNBC
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