Elon Musk Showcases Neuralink’s New Brain‑Chip Features, but Retail Investors Remain Locked Out

Elon Musk posted demos of Neuralink’s latest brain‑chip technology on October 30, 2026, highlighting a thought‑controlled Grok agent and a speech‑to‑phone‑call feature that routes brain signals directly into iPhone audio. Musk reiterated that the company’s first product, Telepathy, will allow people to communicate with computers or other humans by thinking, with output bandwidth projected to far exceed human speech or typing within a few years. Neuralink remains a private company with no public shares; its $9 billion valuation came from a recent funding round. For non‑US investors, the only indirect exposure options are the ARK Venture Fund (open to US investors only) and a Solana‑based PreStocks token that claims to provide exposure to Neuralink shares via a special purpose vehicle. The token’s market cap is only about $1 million, making it highly illiquid and susceptible to manipulation, and there is no evidence that Neuralink endorses it. Thus, while the technology demo is intriguing, retail investors outside the US have limited and risky ways to gain exposure to Neuralink’s future.