The announcement was livestreamed, showing 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh playing online chess
Arbaugh is paralysed shoulders down after a diving incident and received the Neuralink implant in January 2024
Days after showing off his chess skills, he sent a tweet using just thoughts. Needless to say, it went viral.
Arbaugh says he has used the implant to play the video game Civilization VI for eight hours straight
Neuralink is not the only company working on brain-computer interface devices, but claims it’s the most advanced with the most number of electrodes
Musk has claimed that the implant could be used as a potential cure for blindness which he says has already shown promising results in monkeys