The $10M+ Bet on a Beanie That Reads Your Brain | Sabi & the Future of BCI | E2282

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  April 29, 2026 at 20:55  |  54:58  |  This Week in Startups

Summary

Jason Calacanis interviews the founders of Sabi, a noninvasive brain-computer interface beanie. He demonstrates skepticism but acknowledges the potential. The episode also covers a bounty contest for an AI live sidebar and announces a new bounty for an annotation tool.

  • Sabi founders pitch a noninvasive BCI cap that reads thoughts and converts to text.
  • Jason Calacanis calls the technology unlikely but is intrigued by the backing from Vinod Khosla.
  • A $5K bounty contest is underway for a live AI podcast sidebar with fact-checker and cynic personas.
  • A second $5K bounty is announced for an annotation tool called annotated.com.
  • Jason shares a management tip to make everyone the CEO of their domain.
  • The episode includes a live demo of an AI sidebar tool called Armchair.
  • Jason outlines his 'big five' wellness framework: sleep, nutrition, exercise, meditation, socialization.
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