Velco Dar is a futurist, author and founder of Dargentic Intelligence. He speaks and writes on the commercial and strategic implications of brain-computer interfaces. His forthcoming book, NeuraLeap, will be published by Fast Company Press.
In June 2026 Bezos's capital crossed into brain-inspired AI (Flourish, close to $100M at $2.5B) and basic neuroscience (Allen Institute family gift, $100M). With Bezos Expeditions in Synchron, no other tech billionaire spans this many neurotech layers.
Oman Investment Authority's Neuralink position is the latest entry in a sovereign-capital and tech-billionaire cohort racing into brain-computer interfaces.
In just nine months China has issued a national BCI blueprint, overtaken the United States in BCI patent filings, funnelled hundreds of millions into startups, and has just granted the world's first commercial implant approval.