Meet the Beanie That Turns Thoughts Into Text
What if you did not have to speak to your computer, or even type - what if you could simply think?
Silicon Valley startup Sabi is emerging from stealth with exactly that ambition. The company is developing a brain-reading beanie that decodes a person's internal speech and converts it into words on a computer screen, with CEO Rahul Chhabra confirming the first product will be available before the end of the year.
The beanie is lined with up to 100,000 miniaturised EEG sensors, allowing the system to pinpoint neural activity with far greater precision than conventional devices. That data is processed by a Brain Foundation Model - an AI trained on 100,000 hours of brain data from 100 volunteers - targeting an initial typing speed of around 30 words per minute. Neural data is encrypted end to end before it ever leaves the device.
The contrast with surgical implants like Neuralink is deliberate. As investor Vinod Khosla puts it, if a billion people are going to use BCI technology every day, it cannot be invasive. A fascinating glimpse at what the next era of human-computer interaction could look like.
