---
title: "Elon Musk Is Planning to Show Off Neuralink Progress This Week"
description: "This week, Elon Musk plans to show off progress by Neuralink, his startup that's working on an interface between human brains and computers."
date: "2020-08-24"
modified: "2020-08-24"
authors:
  - name: "Jon Christian"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-neuralink-progress-this-week"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "neuralink"
  - "neuroscience"
  - "the digest"
---

# Elon Musk Is Planning to Show Off Neuralink Progress This Week

![This week, Elon Musk plans to show off progress by Neuralink, his startup that's working on an interface between human brains and computers.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Elon-Musk-Show-Off-Neuralink-This-Week.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Neuralink/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## BrainPal

Back in July, SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced an event that he said would show off technology by Neuralink, his startup that's working on an interface between human brains and computers.

"Will show neurons firing in real-time on August 28th," he [tweeted](<https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-details-neuralinks-august-28-event-hints-toward-future-developments/>), mysteriously. "The matrix in the matrix."

Now, with that date coming up on Friday, it could the public's first opportunity to learn what Musk's quietest startup has been working on.

## Vagueposting

What that means is up for interpretation. But Musk, as is his habit, has already set the expectations for the startup sky-high.

"The profound impact of high bandwidth, high precision neural interfaces is underappreciated," he [tweeted](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1224171371003097088?lang=en>) back in February. "Neuralink may have this in a human as soon as this year."

## Trial Date

That line has led to [some speculation](<https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/musk-may-reveal-human-trials-for-brain-computer-tech-this-week/articleshow/77713690.cms>) that Musk could be announcing human trials of the secretive company's technology during the Friday event.

But for now, we're going to have to wait and see.

**More on Neuralink:** [*People Are Begging Elon Musk to Drill Holes in Their Skulls*](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/people-begging-elon-musk-skull>)

## Author
I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production.

### Author social links  
[Bluesky](<https://bsky.app/profile/jonchristian.net>)