OpenAI's VC arm joins Thiel's Founders Fund in $45M Coherence Neuro round
OpenAI's venture capital arm and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund have invested in Coherence Neuro, a startup building a brain implant to detect and treat cancer, as part of a $45 million seed funding round. Coherence CEO Ben Woodington said the investment reflects growing alignment between AI labs and brain-computer interface developers, who view neural data as a valuable new data source for training models.