MindPortal

MindPortal is a research-stage company working on thought-based interfaces for human-AI communication. It positions non-invasive neural decoding as an alternative to keyboards, screens and voice, and has developed three research models: MindSpeech, described as a non-invasive free-form thought-to-text decoder that requires no templates or memorisation and generalises to new users across hundreds of topics; MindGPT, a thought-based interface to a large language model that integrates directly with ChatGPT and lets a user transmit pre-memorised full sentences by thought alone; and MindClick, a thought-based selection mechanism for graphical user interfaces that works with computer screens as well as VR/AR hardware.

The company frames its target applications as AR glasses and virtual environments that respond to thought, silent hands-free control of AI assistants, private communication without an intermediary, and accessibility for people with disabilities and illness. It characterises its technologies as functioning research models that are ready to be scaled rather than commercial products, and states it reached this stage with less than $6M of capital and a team that never exceeded ten people. Company materials cite academic endorsements from Maysam Chamanzar (formerly lead scientist of the DARPA N3 neural interface program, Carnegie Mellon University), Gabriele Gratton (University of Illinois) and Hamid Dehghani (University of Birmingham), and note coverage in Forbes, The Times, The Telegraph and Business Insider.

Traction

MindPortal reports three functioning research models (MindSpeech, MindGPT, MindClick), including what it describes as the first telepathic human-AI exchange in 2024 in London via ChatGPT, achieved with less than $6M raised and a team of no more than ten people. Validation cited includes quotes from three academic researchers in neural interfaces and biomedical optics and press coverage in Forbes, The Times, The Telegraph and Business Insider.

Latest developments

The company's most recent stated milestones are the three research models and the 2024 thought-based exchange with ChatGPT, with the models described as ready to scale to millions of users given additional resources.