Synchron’s Brain-Computer Interface Now Has Nvidia’s AI

But most demonstrations of BCIs have been of one-off capabilities—playing a video game, moving a robotic arm, or piloting a drone, for instance. Synchron is aiming to build a BCI system able to seamlessly perform a wide range of tasks in the home environment. “It’s running in real time, in a real environment 24/7, making predictions where context really matters,” Tom Oxley, Synchron’s CEO, told WIRED in an exclusive interview. To do that, Synchron’s BCI will need to be trained on a lot of brain data. As part of its collaboration with Nvidia, the two companies are developing what Oxley has dubbed “cognitive AI,” the combination of large amounts of brain data with advanced computing to create more intuitive BCI systems. Oxley sees cognitive AI as the next phase of AI development following agentic AI, which can act and make decisions independently, and physical AI, the integration of AI with robots and other physical systems. “What we saw Rodney do is a start, but there are so many more ... Read full article.