OpenAI and Peter Thiel Just Joined a $45 Million Bet on a Brain Implant That Fights Cancer

OpenAI and Peter Thiel joined a $45 million investment in Coherence Neuro, betting on the SOMA brain implant to fight glioblastoma with electrical stimulation. The community was almost unanimously skeptical of the approach: one oncologist called it "not plausible," and one commenter estimated $45 million covers only one third of a clinical trial. The funding and the SOMA implant are real, but the efficacy mechanism and clinical feasibility remain unproven.