Today's story is a bit strange. The photo we see above belongs to Gabe Newell founder of Steam and who has just presented his new project focused on the development of brain chips: Starfish Neuroscience. It is an ambitious, almost futuristic company that aims to compete directly against Neuralink and Elon Musk in a territory that looks increasingly saturated.
However, those who know Gabe From the good old glory days of their video game platform you will remember that the boy was rather a rather robust fellow. So a good part of the headlines among the community gamer On the matter they have focused rather on his significant weight loss.
But in reality we are facing an unexpected turn within the sector. Very recently we saw how Synchrona company with a much less invasive and more consistent technology than Elon Musk's with Neuralink, showed all the advances for its next phase of clinical trials that look more promising.
However, now even they have a new competitor, which has created an ultra-small brain chip, barely the size of a fingernail.
Where did the news about Starfish Neuroscience and its brain implant with the founder of Steam come from?
It all started in The Vergewith a publication within the community itself where photographs of the prototype of the chip were shared but also a portrait taken from the company's own corporate site after each section of the page was updated in depth, where a Gabe Newell who has lost a lot of weight.
From there sites like Yahoo! News, Computer Today either ElBuz They began to echo the news with a wide variation of approaches. Where, broadly speaking, the good Gabe, known for his legendary participation in the creation of Steam and games like Half-Lifereturned to the public light after being absent from the media spotlight for a time.
Although his notable physical change has attracted a lot of attention, it is a fact that his project with Starfish Neuroscience Even more impressive is the development of neural interfaces with chips that are barely the size of a fingernail:
Newell is technically also a co-founder of Starfish as he was of Valve, only here his new company is dedicated to the development of brain-computer solutions, focused on the creation of “minimally invasive” one-dimensional implants.
These chips would be focused on neuromodulation and neuronal recording functions, seeking to improve human interaction using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) advanced.
Elon Musk shouldn't be too worried about Starfish yet
Although Newell for some years had already expressed interest For this type of projects, the reality is that Starfish is found in a very early stage of its growth, so much so that they literally just updated their website. So we could say that at the moment Neuralink and Elon Musk do not have very serious competition.
What is undeniable is that this new adventure by Newell opens up a world of possibilities in the field of neural interfaces. Everything will depend on how they progress with their rehearsals.