S
Is Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor coming out of stealth?
The Valve boss has quietly been building brain-computer interface startup Starfish Neuroscience for years — state records show it was incorporated August 2019, long before Gaben talked up those BCI use cases for gaming.
Now, the company’s website has been updated to show who Starfish is and what it’s building: “Minimally invasive wireless sensors & actuators.” Gaben’s lost some weight, and Valve VR hardware engineer Alan Yates is there! Conspicuously missing: Neuralink co-founder Philip Sabes, who apparently dipped in 2022.
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Loading comments
Getting the conversation ready...
Most Popular
Most Popular
- The Apple Watch Series 12 is the start of a new wearable era
- The 2.5-hour AI-generated Odyssey movie is 2.5 hours too long
- OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
- The iPhone 18 Pro’s big camera update is all about the small gains
- This cartridge-playing Game Boy clone is smaller and cheaper than Analogue’s Pocket
