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This Week in Startups · 2025-06-02 · 64 min · 12,430 words

Grammarly's $1B Round, Brain Computers, and NYT Licenses To Amazon | E2133

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They did their first insertion of a their brain computer implant and then took it out again with the patient that was undergoing brain surgery already to kind of prove it out. But this means that there's now four companies that have done this Neuralink, precision neuroscience, Synchron, and Paradomics that are all working on brain computer interfaces. Is this the next self-driving project? The thing that's currently in the lab, but in five to 10 years we're actually going to get to use? Because I want one of these.

This sounds awesome. I don't know when this comes to civilians or soldiers or body hackers, but uh if there's four people working on it and, you know, it can make person who's paralyzed eventually walk or, you know, a blind person see or, you know, any kind of these neurological diseases, I mean, yeah, it's incredible. This weekend's startups is brought to you by Oracle. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or OCI, is a single platform for your infrastructure database application development and AI needs. Save up to 50% on your cloud bill at Oracle.com slash twist.

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