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President of Elon Musk s Neuralink firm quits
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San Francisco, May 3 : Max Hodak, President of Elon Musk-founded brain-machine interface company Neuralink, has moved on to start a new venture.
Hodak co-founded the company with Musk in 2016. Headquartered in San Francisco, Neuralink s team of around 100 people is trying to develop an implementable computer-brain interface.
The aim of Neuralink is to increase the rate at which information can flow from the human brain to a machine. I am no longer at Neuralink (as of a few weeks ago). I learned a ton there and remain a huge cheerleader for the company! Onward to new things, Hodak said in a tweet on Sunday.
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Max Hodak, the president of Neuralink, a company that aims to connect human brains with computers which was cofounded by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, has said he left the company a few weeks ago. Hodak did not provide any reason for his departure.
In a post on Twitter on Saturday, Hodak, who is also a Neuralink cofounder, said he learned “a ton” at the company and that he remained a “huge cheerleader” for it. Although Hodak did not reveal where he was going next, he mentioned he was moving on to new things. In a response to a comment, he did seem to cross out “Jurassic Park” as one possible option, a reference to his recent statement that Neuralink could