🗞 Brain-Computer Interfaces Advance, and Neuralink's Trademark for "Telepathy"

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 2.0 Models for Physical World AI Integration

• Neuralink Files Trademark Applications for "Telepathy" and "Telekinesis" Products

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🔬 Google DeepMind releases two new Gemini 2.0-based models designed to bring AI into the physical world through advanced robotics

• Gemini Robotics, a vision-language-action (VLA) model that directly controls robots, "more than doubles performance on comprehensive generalization benchmarks" compared to other state-of-the-art models, enabling robots to perform complex tasks like origami folding and adapting to changing environments.

• Gemini Robotics-ER enhances spatial understanding and embodied reasoning, improving capabilities like pointing and 3D detection while achieving "2x-3x success rate compared to Gemini 2.0" in end-to-end robot control tasks.

• Google DeepMind is partnering with Apptronik to build next-generation humanoid robots, while making Gemini Robotics-ER available to trusted testers including Agile Robots, Agility Robots, Boston Dynamics, and Enchanted Tools.

🧠 Elon Musk's Neuralink has filed applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for multiple product names including "Telepathy" and "Telekinesis"

• The "Telepathy" trademark application, filed on March 3, describes an "implantable brain to computer interface for facilitating communication and control of software and hardware," potentially aimed at helping people with paralysis.

• The "Telekinesis" filing focuses on technology for controlling physical objects such as robotic arms, while another application called "Blindsight" targets vision restoration capabilities.

• These trademark filings suggest Neuralink's expanding product roadmap as the company continues development of brain-computer interface technologies.

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