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Sunday 18 October 2026

Neuralink's 50,000-hour brain model shortens calibration

Neuralink says pretraining on 50,000 hours of trial brain data shrank some users' calibration to 10 minutes a week and set an 11.32 bps cursor record.

Harper Quinn Sunday 18 October 2026, open calendar10 min read

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Every morning, before they could use the implant, many of Neuralink's trial participants spent about 10 minutes teaching it to read them again. Neuralink says that for some of them, that's now a once-a-week job.

Elon Musk on stage beside Neuralink's white surgical robot in front of blue curtains at a 2020 event — Photo: Steve Jurvetson / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0), cropped

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