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2025/09 - Brighton Retreat Kickoff

Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 1d

✨ New video drop: watch the kickoff meeting from our recent Focus Week retreat, where the team shares project ideas aimed at helping the community.

Watch now: youtu.be/Vgn0htl1cac

What is the Origin of the Idea that the Brain is Hierarchical? #AI #ThousandBrains #Thalamus

Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 2d

🚨 Viviane Clay and Niels Leadholm respond to “What is the Origin of the Idea that the Brain is Hierarchical?”

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
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#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #Thalamus

In a Nutshell, What is a Thousand Brains System? #AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 5d

@cortical-canonical.bsky.social responds to “In a Nutshell, What is a Thousand Brains System?”

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#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI

2025/08 - GPU-Backed Learning Modules 2

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Hadi Vafaii @hadivafaii.bsky.social · 6d

I'm excited to announce that we've added two more contenders to the RL Debate Series!

- Anne Collins (Professor @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social)
- Niels Leadholm (Research Manager @thousandbrains.org)

Things are heating up!!

See the flyer for details👇

🌎 sensorimotorai.github.io/debates/

🧠🤖🧠📈

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 6d

🚀 New Community GPU Working Group video:

Collin & @tristanls.bsky.social discuss adding CUDA GPU support for Monty’s HypothesesUpdaters. They propose a high-level API for grouping learning module computation + surface new challenges to solve.

Watch now → youtu.be/zghpVNloSKo

#AI #GPU #Monty

2025/08/28 GPU Support Meeting

Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 8d

🚀 New Video Series: Community Videos!

First up: Collin & @tristanls.bsky.social dive into adding CUDA GPU support to Monty’s HypothesesUpdaters, with a proposed high-level API + open issues to tackle.

Watch here 👉 youtu.be/eFmIK16B5kQ

Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 9d

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/hierarchy-or...

#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains

In the traditional understanding of the neocortex, sensory information flows up a hierarchy of regions, with each level processing increasingly complex features. Information also flows down the hierar...

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 9d

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🚨 Jeff Hawkins sets the context for a deep dive into our most recent neuroscience paper "Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain" by answering the question "What is the Thousand Brains Theory?

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What is the Thousand Brains Theory?

What Human Skill Does Monty Already Mimic Better Than Today's State of the Art Models? #ai

Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 12d

🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social and @canoetrip.bsky.social respond to “What Human Skill Does Monty Already Mimic Better Than Today's State of the Art Models?”

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...

#AI

2025/07 - Proposal for Separating Behavior Models

Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 13d

🚨 New video drop! 🚨
@vivianeclay.bsky.social presents a bold proposal for implementing behavior in Monty and the supporting neuroscience evidence.

Watch now: 🎥👇
youtu.be/nWRWb5c3zJk

2025/07 - Flash Inference and Voting

Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 14d

📺 New Video Release:

Jeff Hawkins leads a discussion on the problem of flash inference, how voting partly solves this, and the role of regional sensor locality.

Watch now: youtu.be/36GBOysNGKU

As a software engineer on the Thousand Brains Project, you will shape our open-source code base to make it accessible to a large research community. Additionally, you will write code and maintain infr...

Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 19d

🚀 Help us build an open source platform.

Remote, impactful, collaborative.

Find out more:
thousandbrains.org/company/care...

#SoftwareEngineering #RemoteJobs

Staff Software Engineer

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 23d

🚨 @cortical-canonical.bsky.social responds to “Monty Solves Symmetry, Why is That Useful For Robotics?”

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...

#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI

Monty Solves Symmetry, Why is That Useful For Robotics?

2025/08 Community Shoutouts

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Sep 5

✨ @vivianeclay.bsky.social highlights the amazing work from our community. Thank you all for the incredible contributions this month! ❤️🚀👏

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You Measured FLOPs and Found Savings of Up to Eight Orders of Magnitude, What Does This Unlock? #ai

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Sep 2

🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social responds to “You Measured FLOPs and Found Savings of up to Eight Orders of Magnitude, What Does This Unlock?”

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...

#AI #MachineLearning

The Mind Reader’s Brain: How 150,000 Mini-Computers Solve the Mystery of Understanding Others

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Reposted by Thousand Brains Project

Greg Robison @gregrobison.bsky.social · Sep 2

We can see inside other people’s minds. It’s not some magical ability, it’s algorithms in your cortex. The @thousandbrains.org theory could explain the brain’s source code for empathy, perspective-taking, and social intuition. Check out how it works: gregrobison.medium.com/the-mind-rea...

“For babies and young children, the most important knowledge of all is knowledge of other people.

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How Did Monty Solve Catastrophic Forgetting? #sensorimotorai #ai #machinelearning

Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Aug 29

🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social responds to “How Did Monty Solve Catastrophic Forgetting?”

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...

#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI

How Embodied Movements Might be Learned and Controlled

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Aug 27

🚨 New video drop! 🚨

Jeff walks through how a single cortical column can learn the movements of its own sensor and then use that knowledge to move its sensor in the world.

📺 Watch now youtu.be/4EfsMIcbs7c?...

What is Hypothesis Testing and What Advantages Does it Bring? #machinelearning #ai #sensorimotorai

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Aug 25

🚨 @cortical-canonical.bsky.social responds to “What is Hypothesis Testing and What Advantages Does it Bring?”

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...

#AI #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI

How Does a Reference Frame in Monty Differ From a Feature Map in a Convolutional Neural Network? #ai

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Aug 22

🚨 @hojaeklee.bsky.social responds to "How Does a Reference Frame in Monty Differ From a Feature Map in a Convolutional Neural Network?"

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...

#AI #SensorimotorAI

Research Intro - Implementing Behavioral Models (2025/08) #ai #machinelearning #sensorimotorai

Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Aug 21

✨ @vivianeclay.bsky.social gives a summary of today’s research meeting where we discuss how to implement behavior in our sensorimotor AI system, Monty.

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Watch the full research meeting here: youtu.be/3TwG6qyvEs4

How Long Would it Take Monty to Learn and Then Recognize a Completely Novel Object? #sensorimotorai

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Aug 18

🚨 @canoetrip.bsky.social responds: How Long Would it Take Monty to Learn and Then Recognize a Completely Novel Object?

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...

#AI #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI

How Does Monty Deal with Noise and Novel Rotations? #ai #sensorimotorai

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Aug 15

🚨 @cortical-canonical.bsky.social responds: How Does Monty Deal with Noise and Novel Rotations?

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...

#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI

What Neuroscience Insight was Non-Negotiable in the Design of Monty? #sensorimotorai #ai

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Aug 14

🚨 @cortical-canonical.bsky.social responds: What Neuroscience Insight was Non-Negotiable in the Design of Monty?

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...

#AI #Neuroscience #SensorimotorAI