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The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Science's Max Hodak

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The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Science's Max Hodak

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Mar 09
Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Mar 09
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YC alum Max Hodak is the co-founder of Neuralink and founder of Science, a company building brain-computer interfaces that can restore sight.Science has developed a tiny retinal implant that stimulates cells in the eye to help blind patients see again. Mor...

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In this episode, Max Hodak—co-founder of Neuralink and founder of Science—joins the conversation to explore how brain-computer interfaces are moving beyond theory into real-world clinical impact, particularly for people who have lost their sight.
09:49
Blind patients' brains generate hallucinations because they still 'want to see', even without optic nerve input.
14:47
Their clinical trial was the first to create form vision
19:42
Exciting bipolar cells with an image creates an image in the mind's eye
29:18
Biohybrid neural interfaces use engineered stem-cell-derived neurons seeded into implants to engraft onto the brain without wires or genetic modification of host tissue
49:32
The first people to live to a thousand may be alive now
52:04
BCIs will reframe the human condition by 2035

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How does a tiny retinal implant help blind patients see again—and what does the brain have to learn?
00:00
What’s next for vision restoration? From form perception to full-color, wide-field sight.
12:13
Why is stimulating the right retinal cells so hard—and what does that teach us about consciousness?
19:42
What are Science’s three breakthrough technologies—and how do they work together?
29:18
How did Max Hodak go from building labs remotely to co-founding Neuralink?
44:24
Why could 2035 be the year BCIs change what it means to be human?
52:04

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Max Hodak: I think it is very possible that the first people to live to 1,000 are alive right now. It still takes some suspension of disbelief. Because I think biotech has just been so incremental. One of the things that's so exciting about what's happenin...