Elon Musk cofounded Neuralink in 2016.
Elon Musk says the first Neuralink chip has been implanted into a human.
  • Silicon Valley wants to expand its reach beyond your smartphone.
  • The first human patient has received a brain chip implant from Elon Musk's Neuralink.
  • The watershed moment comes as Apple and Meta double down on virtual and augmented reality headsets.

Silicon Valley doesn't just want to be in your pocket or on your arm anymore.

After spending years getting people hooked on smartphones, tech leaders have been scrambling to figure out what comes next.

In part, they've been driven by a growing sense that we might have reached peak smartphone.