The merging of man and machine.
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The creation of a new tech-driven caste system.

NEURALINK FUNDING

Despite Tesla shares taking a hit, a polarising and dividing personality in the public’s eye, and a new implosion with the President presented on-screen, there is one project apart of Elon’s agenda that will continue to progress regardless of the manufactured drama we see.

That is artificial intelligence, and more specifically, Musk’s transhumanist Neuralink project.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink said on Monday that it had raised $650 million (A$1 billion) in its latest funding round, as its brain implant device enters clinical trials.

Neuralink closed its funding round with participation from key investors, including: ARK Invest, DFJ Growth, Founders Fund, G42, Human Capital, Lightspeed, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Valor Equity Partners and Vy Capital, the company said.

“This funding helps us bring our technology to more people — restoring independence for those with unmet medical needs and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with brain interfaces,” Neuralink said.

The $650 million in a funding values the company at $9 billion, Semafor reported.

Neuralink last round raised $43 million in venture capital in November 2023, and the company was valued at about $5 billion in June 2023, Reuters reported at the time.

Last month, Neuralink received “breakthrough device” clearance from the U.S. FDA for its speech restoration device. It received the same tag for its vision-restoring device last year.

The health regulator’s ‘Breakthrough Devices Program’ is intended to provide patients and health care providers with “timely access to medical devices by speeding up development, assessment and review”, according to its website.

Neuralink has started clinical trials for the device, which has a chip that processes neural signals that can be transmitted to computers or phones, in three countries.

According to the company, five patients with severe paralysis are using Neuralink to control digital and physical devices with their thoughts.

Earlier this month, a nonverbal patient posted a video about how he uses a Neuralink implant to edit and narrate YouTube videos with just his brain signals.

Musk has expressed grand ambitions for the company, saying its chip ‘would allow healthy and disabled people alike to pop into neighbourhood facilities for speedy surgical insertions of devices to treat obesity, autism, depression and schizophrenia’.

He even sees them being used for web-surfing and telepathy.

Neuralink demonstrates first example of brain-chip “telepathy”

Indeed, Musk’s company stands at the forefront of the push towards a cyborg robotic future – inhabited by machines that do everything, and the human beings who merge with them.

Presented as a moral talking point for ‘solving disease’ and ‘aiding disability’, the Neuralink chip has the potential – once commercialised – to alter our species forever.

Which is exactly what they were hoping for all along.

TRANSHUMANISM ONWARDS

Science fiction is no longer confined to the pages of comic books, or theatres full of moving pictures, but is a reality as we continue to enter uncharted levels of tech ‘progression’.

TOTT News has been following along since the idea was first presented, and since then, Musk’s brain-chip interface has advanced slowly, but surely, to this dystopian stage.

It all became real in 2021 when monkeys were rolled out to the public and shown to be playing games with their brainwaves, following controversial testing on the animals.

Elon Musk’s ‘Neuralink monkey’ plays game with brainwaves

At the time, he described the monkeys as living in “paradise”, but the primates actually suffered painful deaths afterwards, raising suspicions about the long-term safety of devices.

But this didn’t stop Neuralink. Last year, the first human patient reportedly to receive a implanted brain chip for the first time was revealed to the public.

First human receives Neuralink brain chip implant, Elon Musk says

Musk hopes to eventually scale these devices beyond medicine, to the consumer market.

And, with Musk also one of the players at the forefront of artificial intelligence, it seems like it is full steam ahead for the transhumanist vision.

In December, Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI raised $6 billion from marquee investors like BlackRock, Nvidia Corp, and AMD, among others, to expand AI infrastructure.

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion funding from BlackRock, others

Elon has already publicly states that he believes we should merge with machines (‘if we can’t beat them, join them’), as he pours endless resources into the endeavour.

Many of the members of the website will already know that Musk has powerful backers behind him and a very interesting life story.

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The ultimate goal is the manifestation of a new slave class of people, as promises of ‘superhuman’ abilities will be reserved for the ‘chosen class’, while the masses merge with technology designed for a constant state of surveillance and control.

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But it won’t be pretty, with a mind-blowing military report recently forecasting the potential of a future with robotic and microchip-driven warmongering.