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Market Moves

Synchron's long road to reaching the brain through a blood vessel

Synchron began with a cold email from Tom Oxley to DARPA in 2011 and a US$1 million offer to build a brain implant that travels through the veins. Fifteen years on it has put its first-generation Stentrode into ten people in Melbourne and the United States, raised US$345 million, connected its implant to Apple devices, Amazon's Alexa and OpenAI's models, and started trials of a fully wireless second-generation device. Enrolment in its US and Australian trials is paused while Synchron upgrades the hardware, and the company says it will restart once that work is finished.

Nov 13

Industry News

Neuralink cuts some implant users' calibration from 10 minutes a day to 10 minutes a week

Neuralink said on 1 October 2026 that participants in its clinical trial have streamed more than 50,000 hours of unlabelled brain recordings during everyday use of its implant, and that it has used participants' own recordings to pretrain participant-specific models that steady the software turning brain signals into cursor movement. Calibration had averaged 55 minutes a week across participants, typically 10 minutes at the start of each day; some participants now calibrate for 10 minutes a week. Six participants set personal bests on Neuralink's cursor test, and one reached 11.32 bits per second, which the company calls a record for a brain-computer interface. Every live result came from a model trained on a single participant's data, and models pooled across participants have not yet performed better. Neuralink's stated next goals are calibrating once, never calibrating, and a shared 'API for the motor cortex' for developers.

Oct 3