Back in April , we learned about Elon Musk ’s neural lace company , Neuralink , which trust to make wit - computer interfaces a reality . Now , however , he ’s got into a bit of a spat about how the company is being fund .

TheWall Street Journalclaimed the company had raise $ 27 million of a target $ 100 million , with 12 investor presently on circuit board . Musk , however , took to Twitter to abnegate those claim .

“ Neuralink is not raising money , ” he pronounce inone tweet . In another , headded : “ WSJ [ the Wall Street Journal ] has been laboriously negative for over a 10 . I ’m surprised they have n’t bored their readers to end by now . ”

He then also posted a rather spicy reply to Rolfe Winkler , a diarist who work on the WSJ small-arm , tweeting a fire emoji and , uh , a poop emoji .

Who ’s good ? We do n’t bed . We also do n’t know quite why Musk is so nettle up about this . If he desire to get investment for Neuralink , he could perhaps do it reasonably easily .

In the early day of SpaceX , Musk largely funded the company himself , through money he ’d made from X.com ( later Paypal ) . Considering he ’s nowconsiderably rich , he probably would n’t have too much difficultness fund Neuralink himself as well .

Since thatannouncement in Aprilwe have n’t heard too much , but to be fair Musk has been busy with SpaceX , Tesla , and Hyperloop . We do experience the goals are to essentially increase genial yield , treat people with severe brain harm , and possibly enable some bod of telepathy .

It sounds a bit far - fetched , certain . But then , so didreusable rocketsand amass - market all - electric cara few age ago , too . Sure , we do n’t yet know for certain who ’s funding Neuralink , but it ’s safe to say it ’s probably not in any fiscal trouble at the mo .

Musk ’s broader design for Neuralink stay a bit of a mystery for now . The company has asimple websitethat aver it is “ developing ultra high bandwidth psyche - machine interfaces to connect humans and computers . ”

It also adds it is looking for “ olympian engineers and scientists ” to work full time in San Francisco , with no neuroscience experience actually being required . “ We are primarily looking for grounds of special ability and a track record of building things that crop . ”

Just commend , if you do get a job there , do n’t ask Elon Musk where the money ’s come from .