said 16 Jul 2019
We hope to have this in a human patient by the end of next year.
— Elon Musk, contemporaneous report
First Neuralink public presentation, San Francisco. Quoted verbatim by Fox News the next morning.
What happened: The first human implant came in January 2024, three years after the promised date.
due 31 Dec 2020 · resolved 29 Jan 2024
Receipt · archived original Fox News report of the Neuralink launch event, Jul 16 2019 (opens in a new tab)