OpenAI-backed Merge Labs is working to safely interface biology, hardware devices, and AI at higher bandwidth.

Other notable brain computer interface startups include Neuralink, which is run by Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 ...

OpenAI is participating in a $250 million seed round into Merge Labs, Sam Altman's brain computer interface startup. The ...

LumiMind debuts real-time non-invasive brain computer interfaces at CES 2026, pairing live gameplay demos with LumiSleep, a ...

OpenAI is continuing its push into healthcare by investing in Merge Labs, a brain computer interface startup co-founded by its CEO, Sam Altman. Merge Labs is a competitor in the brain computer ...

An important milestone has been achieved in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. A new peer-reviewed study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering shows how a high-performance brain-computer ...

In August, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman is part of Merger Labs’ founding team ...

The investment deepens Sam Altman’s growing footprint across frontier technologies and sharpens his rivalry with Elon Musk, ...

OpenAI leads a major seed round in Sam Altman’s Merge Labs to develop advanced, non-invasive brain-computer interfaces with ...

The man is enrolled in the BrainGate2 clinical trial at UC Davis Health. His ability to communicate through a computer has ...

A major step toward the industrialization of brain-computer interface technology was taken recently as NeuroXess, a Chinese ...