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Market Moves

Sabi raises $50 million for a brain-sensing baseball cap

Khosla Ventures has led a $50 million seed round in Sabi, a California startup building a baseball cap meant to turn imagined words and trained mental commands into text and instructions for AI assistants. Accel, Initialized Capital, former OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil, DST Global, Collaborative Fund and Ascend also invested, Sabi announced on 9 October 2026. Forbes put the valuation at $600 million, citing a person familiar with the deal. The cap is designed to read brain signals through hair with sensors built around a custom EEG chip, and to decode them with a model Sabi says was trained on more than 100,000 hours of labelled recordings. In April, Sabi said its first product would be a beanie available by the end of 2026. The cap will now debut as an early prototype at CES in January, and Forbes reported that it will not be available until 2027. Sabi has named no price and published no peer-reviewed results, and its only accuracy figure, up to 77 per cent, comes from a wired laboratory prototype.

Oct 11

Industry News

Tianjin University releases a 3-gram brain-signal recorder that sits hidden in the hair

Tianjin University's Haihe Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interaction and Human-Machine Integration and its partner Shengong Diting (Tianjin) Technology announced the Shengong Xumi Brain Cube on 30 September 2026, a non-invasive EEG device weighing 3 grams and measuring about 2 cubic centimetres, with electrodes, circuitry, battery and wireless link in one unit fixed to the scalp among the hair. It records at 1,000 samples a second for 8 to 10 hours, and its developers call it the smallest and lightest non-invasive brain-computer interface system yet made. The lab says it is building safety management models around the device for workers in China's licensed high-risk trades, with guidance from special-operations and emergency-management departments. China's national BCI plan names hazardous materials, nuclear, mining and power as industries to pilot the technology first.

Oct 4

Industry News

Naomi Bashkansky quits OpenAI to join BCI startup Conduit

On 23 July 2026, Naomi Bashkansky resigned from OpenAI's alignment team after eighteen months to join Conduit, a San Francisco non-invasive brain-computer interface startup co-founded by Rio Popper and Clem von Stengel. Conduit claims to have collected approximately 10,000 hours of neuro-language data from thousands of paid participants over six months, funded through undisclosed capital. Bashkansky joins as Founding Researcher.

Aug 7

Market Moves

BrainCo unveils a brain-to-robot developer platform at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai

On Friday 17 July 2026, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, BrainCo debuted its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform, a graphical developer toolkit that pairs its non-invasive EEG headset with third-party humanoid, robotic-arm, and quadruped robots from Unitree, Realman, and Deep Robotics. Nyx He, partner and senior vice president, framed the launch as the next chapter of human-machine collaboration. Live demonstrations at the booth showed a person in an EEG headband directing a robotic arm to pick up a cup and an apple without buttons, voice, or muscle movement.

Jul 18

Policy & Regulation

Beijing Tiantan Hospital seeds Xizang's first plateau BCI centre at Lhasa People's Hospital

Xinhua reported on 9 July 2026 that Xizang (Tibet Autonomous Region)'s first plateau brain-computer interface clinical application centre was inaugurated at Lhasa People's Hospital. A medical assistance team from Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, introduced the non-invasive EEG-based BCI technology, which drives exoskeleton and robotic-arm actuators for motor rehabilitation. The centre sits within a six-year Tiantan-Lhasa department-support partnership dating to 2020, and targets cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral ischemia, TBI, spinal cord injury, and peripheral nerve injury indications.

Jul 10

Research

An Imperial-Tsinghua BCI lets ten healthy people control a pair of extra robotic arms while balancing a ball with their own hands

Tianyu Jia and Dario Farina at Imperial College London, with collaborators at Tsinghua University and Southeast University Nanjing, published a Nature Communications paper on 2 July 2026 describing a tactile-encoded non-invasive BCI in which ten healthy participants controlled four supernumerary robotic degrees of freedom concurrently with a bimanual ball-balancing task, reaching 74.79 per cent single-task and 59.69 per cent dual-task online accuracy after three days of training.

Jul 2

Market Moves

Sabi emerges from stealth with a thought-to-text beanie and Khosla backing

California startup Sabi has exited stealth with a non-invasive EEG beanie packing up to 100,000 miniature sensors, a brain foundation model trained on 100,000 hours of neural data, and a plan to ship a consumer thought-to-text device by the end of 2026. Khosla Ventures leads.

Apr 16