Nick Card

Our new preprint describes a multimodal intracortical brain-computer interface that a man with ALS has used at home, independently, almost every day for >19 months. It decodes both speech and cursor control to enable him to communicate and use his computer. Here’s a quick tour👇

Excited to introduce LightBeam, a CTC decoder for speech neuroprostheses that drastically cuts memory load while achieving state-of-the art (SOTA) results Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.14002 Code: github.com/ebrahimfeghhi/… Co-authors: @hu_is_lionel @nrhadidi @JonathanCKao Thread 🧵

Another brain-computer interface record set in the published record: fastest communication based on hand movements (typing in this case): nature.com/articles/s4159… Congrats Justin and the rest of the @BrainGateTeam!

Finally, we plan to put out a whitepaper later in 2026 covering the decoding approaches used by the winning teams!

We will be re-releasing the competition data in a non-normalized continuous format in the coming weeks. We'd also like to re-open the leaderboard so it can serve as a public benchmark for future studies, but have not quite decided how best to do that yet. Stay tuned.

Announcing the winners of the Brain-to-Text '25 challenge! 🥇 1st place: Zahra Jahanshiri, Masoud Farivar, Siavash Rezazadeh 🥈 2nd place: Jinhan Liu Mahsa Shoaran 🥉 3rd place: Yizi Zhang 🏆 Honorable mention: Tommaso Boccato, Moein Khajehnejad, Michal Olak, Matteo Ferrante

A new BBC story covers several different projects related to intracortical speech decoding from our @BrainGateTeam consortium and others’ non-invasive work: bbc.com/future/article…

Excited to share our new work on cross-brain transfer of speech and handwriting BCIs! Some studies have required 10+ days of training data for peak BCI performance. Can pooling neural data from other users speed things up? 1/6 biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Our speech brain-to-text neural decoding competition ends tonight! It's been really fun to see many very high accuracy submissions beating all the previously published SOTA baselines. Some last minute entries just came in...

@jacob_g_martin1 @BlackrockNeuro_ And to answer your other question: code can be privately shared under a license if the submitter wishes. The whole point of the private code sharing is just to confirm that the submission is following the competition rules, which is difficult or impossible to ensure otherwise.

@jacob_g_martin1 @BlackrockNeuro_ If you want to be eligible for cash prizes, we want to check that you are not cheating. Otherwise, you are free to use the dataset for whatever you want and keep your code to yourself. If you think this is all a ploy to steal your code and publish it, feel free to not submit!

There's just one month left for the Brain-to-Text '25 challenge! Submit your neural decoding approach and compete for $9,000 in prizes provided by @BlackrockNeuro_ kaggle.com/competitions/b…

@jacob_g_martin1 @BlackrockNeuro_ We're trying to get experts involved in this field to solve an important problem. There's no requirement to publicly share your approach. AND we shared a new speech neuroscience dataset that anyone can use for whatever they want. But go off...

@NS_Card @BlackrockNeuro_ x.com/jacob_g_martin… They went up to $9000 this time 😂

Congrats to @neuroleigh and our team at @ucdavis: @SergeyStavisky, @Maitreyee_W, @NS_Card, @DrDavidBrandman, et al., whose speech intracortical brain-computer interface has been recognized as a milestone in neurology by the American Neurological Association @TheNewANA1 !

POST-DOC JOB POST ALERT!!! 🔥 We are looking for a post-doc candidate to run our flagship clinical trial to restore arm and hand motor function in people with post-stroke hemiparesis using fully implantable spinal cord stimulation! Send your application to: my email :) #Neurotech

The Brain-to-text '25 challenge is heating up! Over 1,000 people have now joined the competition, and one team has already beaten all 3 benchmarks! There's still 4 months left to join & compete for $9,000 in cash prizes. kaggle.com/competitions/b…

Come work with us and help develop neurotechnologies to restore communication to the people who need it most!

Could your algorithm redefine speech BCIs? Compete in Brain-to-text '25 and see if you can lower the word error rate further. spectrum.ieee.org/speech-bci-mac…

Build the next generation of communication BCIs with us—now hiring a new postdoc! Application here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1IWbGv…