Everything to know about Elon Musk's Neuralink and its first human brain implant

Neuralink wants to help paralyzed people, to begin with.

Neuralink is a startup founded by Elon Musk in 2017. It’s trying to build a brain-computer interface that would help people with traumatic injuries operate phones and PCs using only their thoughts.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp has performed its first brain implant on a human — a major step toward the billionaire’s goal of one-day enabling people to control computers with their minds. And for the first time, Musk has given the implant device a name.

Here’s all you need to know about Neuralink and the company’s first human trial: