Michael Mager

Co-Founder & CEO, Precision Neuroscience · 1 appearance on the record.

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In 2021, Mager co-founded Precision Neuroscience to build high-bandwidth, minimally invasive brain-computer interfaces. Prior to leading Precision, he operated as an investor, co-founded Assembly Software, and served on the board of Maimonides Medical Center.

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3 predictions · 6 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, 2 are not yet assessed, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Assertion Supported

Mager: Precision's 40 human implants exceed the rest of the industry combined

“Precision has now done 40 implants. That's more than the rest of the industry combined in the past two years.”

Michael Mager Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 7:03 Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge

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Assertion Supported

Mager: Precision's 40 human implants exceed the rest of the industry combined

“Precision has now done 40 implants. That's more than the rest of the industry combined in the past two years.”

Michael Mager Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 7:03 Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge

Assertion Supported

Mager: Precision reached human implants in two years versus Neuralink's eight

“So we did our first Patient implant within two years of founding, you know, took Neuralink eight years. It's taken other competitors even longer than that.”

Michael Mager Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 22:22 Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Mager: High-fidelity neural recording companies will build OS-like ecosystems

“I think the companies that are able to record at high fidelity and then transmit the neural data are going to be able to create an ecosystem around them to do all sorts of things that are right now not possible.”

Michael Mager Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 30:10 Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge

Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2030

Mager: Precision and other BCIs will reach market within five years

“We expect within five years there to be precision system on the market and maybe one or two others that are making a big clinical impact for people who are severely paralyzed and then expanding from the sort of two and a half billion dollar a year market that …”

Michael Mager Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 1:08:24 Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge

Assertion Supported

Mager: Precision built a custom fab to overcome domestic supply chain limits

“We actually own the fab in which we do it. There is no domestic supply chain that's capable of this sort of work.”

Michael Mager Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 9:50 Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge

Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2028

Mager: Paralyzed patients will seamlessly control video games and software via BCIs

“So what we are going to enable in, in people who are right now paralyzed is seamless control of computers and smartphones and other digital devices in the way that we all frankly take for granted every day. So think about, you know, rich video games productivi…”

Michael Mager Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 18:13 Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Mager: Initial BCI market for severe paralysis is around $2.5B

“There are about 400,000 people who have no use of their arms and hands. And so for them being able to control a computer A computer, a smartphone, a tablet, it's going to be life changing. And we think that that's a sort of two and a half billion dollar market…”

Michael Mager Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 28:41 Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge

Disclosure

Mager: Precision plans electrode arrays scaling to millions of channels

“The medium term vision for precision is a much larger electrode array covering much greater areas of the brain's Cortex with hundreds of thousands, someday millions of electrodes.”

Michael Mager Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 47:15 Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge

Assertion Supported

Mager: Dr. Ben Rapoport co-founded Neuralink with Elon Musk

“Ben was also one of the co-founders of Neuralink with Elon Musk and several others and left to approach this technology in a different way for reasons that we'll get into.”

Michael Mager Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 2:35 Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge

Assertion Supported

Mager: Morgan Stanley estimated a $400B TAM for BCIs

“Morgan Stanley wrote a report last year that estimated a four hundred billion dollar TAM.”

Michael Mager Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 1:08:13 Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge	Sep 5, 2025	17m

Michael Mager

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