{"id":217339,"date":"2025-07-07T21:15:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T02:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/brain-chips-get-smarter-elon-musks-neuralink-gets-competition"},"modified":"2025-07-07T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T02:15:18","slug":"brain-chips-get-smarter-elon-musks-neuralink-gets-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/brain-chips-get-smarter-elon-musks-neuralink-gets-competition","title":{"rendered":"Brain chips get smarter. Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink gets competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-chips-get-smarter-elon-musks-neuralink-gets-competition.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent advances suggest the technology is hitting its stride. The UC Davis team\u2019s speech synthesis system <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2025\/06\/a-neural-brain-implant-provides-near-instantaneous-speech\/?mc_cid=b7d6328cb9\"> represents a fundamental shift<\/a> from previous approaches. Rather than translating brain signals into text and then synthesizing speech \u2014 a process that created significant delays \u2014 UC Davis\u2019 system converts thoughts directly into sounds with near-instantaneous 10-millisecond latency.<\/p>\n<p>H2]:text-3xl pb-8<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, researchers at Carnegie Mellon achieved <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.cmu.edu\/news-events\/news\/2025\/06\/30-bci-robotic-hand-control.html\"> real-time control of individual robotic fingers<\/a> using non-invasive EEG technology, wearing a cap that reads brain signals through the skull. This suggests that future brain interfaces might not require surgery at all for certain applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent advances suggest the technology is hitting its stride. The UC Davis team\u2019s speech synthesis system represents a fundamental shift from previous approaches. Rather than translating brain signals into text and then synthesizing speech \u2014 a process that created significant delays \u2014 UC Davis\u2019 system converts thoughts directly into sounds with near-instantaneous 10-millisecond latency. H2]:text-3xl [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}