Neuralink and Boring
Musk’s two private companies file nothing public. This is what can be pieced together from their funding filings, trial registries, city contracts, regulators and the press, every figure cited, and the arithmetic of what each would need to become a ten-billion-dollar-a-year business.
Neuralink
Brain implants: a paralysed patient controlling a computer by thought, and next, sight for the blind.
Valuation and funding
Each funding round and secondary-market valuation. USD billions.
People implanted
Cumulative implants, from company statements and an unofficial tracker.
The trials
Every registered study, its planned enrolment and status.
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What $10B a year would take
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The rivals
Other brain-computer interface companies, their funding and stage.
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Regulators and the law
FDA, animal-welfare and other proceedings.
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The Boring Company
Small car tunnels: the Vegas Loop today, Nashville and Dubai next.
Valuation and funding
Each funding round. USD billions.
Vegas Loop riders
Cumulative passengers, from the convention authority and the company.
Cost per mile, against subways
USD millions per mile, log scale. Not like for like: a Loop tunnel is one lane for cars; a subway carries far more people.
Every project
Contract value where known, and where each stands.
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What $10B a year would take
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The rivals
Conventional tunnelling and other ways to move people.
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Regulators and the law
Permits, safety and environmental cases.
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His predictions about them, scored
From the same record as /record: on time, late, partly, missed, or pending.
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