Viviane Clay
@vivianeclay.bsky.social
Director, Thousand Brains Project @Numenta
Working on a new type of AI that works on the principles of the neocortex 🧠🦾 #neuroscience #EmbodiedAI #sensorimotor #neuroAI
Working on a new type of AI that works on the principles of the neocortex 🧠🦾 #neuroscience #EmbodiedAI #sensorimotor #neuroAI
Reposted by Viviane Clay
Join us Dec 17 at 9 AM PST for a meetup with Jeff Hawkins, @vivianeclay.bsky.social, and the Thousand Brains Project team.
New to Monty? This is the perfect place to jump in. If you already know Monty, we’ll tell you something new.
www.meetup.com/thousand-bra...
New to Monty? This is the perfect place to jump in. If you already know Monty, we’ll tell you something new.
www.meetup.com/thousand-bra...
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Join us Dec 17 at 9 AM PST for a meetup with Jeff Hawkins, @vivianeclay.bsky.social, and the Thousand Brains Project team.
New to Monty? This is the perfect place to jump in. If you already know Monty, we’ll tell you something new.
www.meetup.com/thousand-bra...
New to Monty? This is the perfect place to jump in. If you already know Monty, we’ll tell you something new.
www.meetup.com/thousand-bra...
Reposted by Viviane Clay
🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social and @cortical-canonical.bsky.social respond to “What's the Most Surprising Capability Monty Gains Through Sensorimotor Learning?”
youtube.com/shorts/lUQkb...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
✅ What's the Most Surprising Capability Monty Gains Through Sensorimotor Learning #sensorimotorai
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
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October 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social and @cortical-canonical.bsky.social respond to “What's the Most Surprising Capability Monty Gains Through Sensorimotor Learning?”
youtube.com/shorts/lUQkb...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
youtube.com/shorts/lUQkb...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
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🚨 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
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/hierarchy-or...
#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #Thalamus
youtube.com/shorts/aA0Lh...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/hierarchy-or...
#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #Thalamus
What is the Origin of the Idea that the Brain is Hierarchical? #AI #ThousandBrains #Thalamus
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
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October 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🚨 Viviane Clay and Niels Leadholm respond to “What is the Origin of the Idea that the Brain is Hierarchical?”
youtube.com/shorts/aA0Lh...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/hierarchy-or...
#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #Thalamus
youtube.com/shorts/aA0Lh...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/hierarchy-or...
#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #Thalamus
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🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social responds to “You Measured FLOPs and Found Savings of up to Eight Orders of Magnitude, What Does This Unlock?”
youtube.com/shorts/VhYFA...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
#AI #MachineLearning
youtube.com/shorts/VhYFA...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
#AI #MachineLearning
You Measured FLOPs and Found Savings of Up to Eight Orders of Magnitude, What Does This Unlock? #ai
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
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September 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social responds to “You Measured FLOPs and Found Savings of up to Eight Orders of Magnitude, What Does This Unlock?”
youtube.com/shorts/VhYFA...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
#AI #MachineLearning
youtube.com/shorts/VhYFA...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
#AI #MachineLearning
I just came across this excellent blog post about the recent results we published about the capabilities of the new type of AI we are building (no deep learning!) at the @thousandbrains.org 🤖 🧠: gregrobison.medium.com/hands-on-int...
Hands-On Intelligence: Why the Future of AI Moves Like a Curious Toddler, Not a Supercomputer
“We are neural beings. Our brains take their input from the rest of our bodies. What our bodies are like and how they function in the world…
gregrobison.medium.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I just came across this excellent blog post about the recent results we published about the capabilities of the new type of AI we are building (no deep learning!) at the @thousandbrains.org 🤖 🧠: gregrobison.medium.com/hands-on-int...
Reposted by Viviane Clay
Are you a software developer who wants to work on AI but doesn't have the classic Machine Learning / LLM / deep neural network experience? Then, I'm looking for you...
I'm looking for traditional software engineers to build our sensorimotor intelligence platform.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
I'm looking for traditional software engineers to build our sensorimotor intelligence platform.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Open-Source Software Engineer
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...
thousandbrains.org
August 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Are you a software developer who wants to work on AI but doesn't have the classic Machine Learning / LLM / deep neural network experience? Then, I'm looking for you...
I'm looking for traditional software engineers to build our sensorimotor intelligence platform.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
I'm looking for traditional software engineers to build our sensorimotor intelligence platform.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Great blog post about the importance of structured representations for intelligence and spatial navigation mechanisms being generalized to navigate our mental models of the world.
Where intelligence begins with maps, dive deep into how ancient navigation evolved into AI's spatial intelligence. From brain's internal GPS to @thousandbrains.org Monty's innovation, discover how reference frames change our understanding of cognition and AI: gregrobison.medium.com/mapping-real...
Mapping Reality: From Ancient Navigation to AI’s Spatial Innovation
“We assert that the central office itself is far more like a map control room than it is like an old-fashioned telephone exchange. The…
gregrobison.medium.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Great blog post about the importance of structured representations for intelligence and spatial navigation mechanisms being generalized to navigate our mental models of the world.
Reposted by Viviane Clay
🚨 @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
youtube.com/shorts/2DwYk...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
#AI #Neuroscience #SensorimotorAI
What Neuroscience Insight was Non-Negotiable in the Design of Monty? #sensorimotorai #ai
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
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August 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🚨 @cortical-canonical.bsky.social responds: What Neuroscience Insight was Non-Negotiable in the Design of Monty?
youtube.com/shorts/2DwYk...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
#AI #Neuroscience #SensorimotorAI
youtube.com/shorts/2DwYk...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
#AI #Neuroscience #SensorimotorAI
Recommend this blog post! "These results suggest that the solution to catastrophic forgetting is rethinking how artificial systems learn, moving from monolithic, globally-optimized networks toward modular, locally-adaptive architectures that mirror the brain’s evolved approach to lifelong learning."
What is catastrophic forgetting? Why can humans remember calculus and linear algebra, but AI loses everything? Dive into this paradox and learn how @thousandbrains.org is tackling one of the most expensive problems in artificial intelligence: gregrobison.medium.com/learning-to-...
Learning to Forget: Why Catastrophic Memory Loss Is AI’s Most Expensive Problem
“The art of remembering is the art of thinking.”
gregrobison.medium.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Recommend this blog post! "These results suggest that the solution to catastrophic forgetting is rethinking how artificial systems learn, moving from monolithic, globally-optimized networks toward modular, locally-adaptive architectures that mirror the brain’s evolved approach to lifelong learning."
Many people think of the brain as a hierarchical system, and in many ways it is. But there is also a lot of non-hierarchical processing going on. Check out this pre-print where we review and propose functional roles for the different long-range connections in the neocortex 🧠
New paper dropped! “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain” The Thousand Brains Theory explains the cortex’s non-hierarchical connections, and why they matter for building machine intelligence.
Read it now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
Read it now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
July 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Many people think of the brain as a hierarchical system, and in many ways it is. But there is also a lot of non-hierarchical processing going on. Check out this pre-print where we review and propose functional roles for the different long-range connections in the neocortex 🧠
Super excited to share our new paper! We spent the past years building an alternative AI approach, and now we demonstrate a whole range of advantages. Robust object & pose detection, generalization, data and compute efficient training, continual learning, shape bias, intelligent policies, and more!🦾
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The first paper: “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference”, is out now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494. It showcases our first working system, codename Monty.
The first paper: “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference”, is out now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494. It showcases our first working system, codename Monty.
July 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Super excited to share our new paper! We spent the past years building an alternative AI approach, and now we demonstrate a whole range of advantages. Robust object & pose detection, generalization, data and compute efficient training, continual learning, shape bias, intelligent policies, and more!🦾
I just read this great blog post about the lack of sensorimotor learning in current AI and how Piaget's theories, neuroscience, and the TBT outline a better path. This resonated a lot with me as I spent years of my PhD trying to make exactly that point :) gregrobison.medium.com/active-learn...
Active Learning Machines: What Thousand Brains Theory and Piaget Reveal About True Intelligence
“To understand the development of knowledge we must start with an idea which seems central to me — the idea of an operation. Knowledge is…
gregrobison.medium.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I just read this great blog post about the lack of sensorimotor learning in current AI and how Piaget's theories, neuroscience, and the TBT outline a better path. This resonated a lot with me as I spent years of my PhD trying to make exactly that point :) gregrobison.medium.com/active-learn...
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🚀 New video: @vivianeclay.bsky.social presents the Future Applications & Positive Impacts of Monty
We don’t claim to predict the future - but we do know what Monty will be capable of when we hit each milestone.
Watch here 👉 youtu.be/Iap_sq1_BzE
We don’t claim to predict the future - but we do know what Monty will be capable of when we hit each milestone.
Watch here 👉 youtu.be/Iap_sq1_BzE
2025/04 - TBP Positive Impact
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
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April 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🚀 New video: @vivianeclay.bsky.social presents the Future Applications & Positive Impacts of Monty
We don’t claim to predict the future - but we do know what Monty will be capable of when we hit each milestone.
Watch here 👉 youtu.be/Iap_sq1_BzE
We don’t claim to predict the future - but we do know what Monty will be capable of when we hit each milestone.
Watch here 👉 youtu.be/Iap_sq1_BzE
Great interview with Jeff about the significant differences between our intelligence 🧠 and deep learning. Have a listen if you want to know how we could build machines based on how the brain actually works and how this will shape the future of AI 🤖
Al isn't actually intelligent and works nothing like our beautiful brains. The race against China is weak framing compared to creating super intelligence. Jeff Hawkins of @thousandbrains.org and @numentaofficial.bsky.social go deep on @lifewithmachines.bsky.social
youtu.be/x-hhFui8ysg
youtu.be/x-hhFui8ysg
AI Isn’t Intelligent—Here’s What’s Missing | Jeff Hawkins (Ep. 14)
YouTube video by Baratunde Thurston
youtu.be
March 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Great interview with Jeff about the significant differences between our intelligence 🧠 and deep learning. Have a listen if you want to know how we could build machines based on how the brain actually works and how this will shape the future of AI 🤖
[WE'RE HIRING]
Join our awesome @thousandbrains.org team to build the future of machine intelligence! 🚀
💻 We're looking for a software engineer to support our research team and open-source community thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Join our awesome @thousandbrains.org team to build the future of machine intelligence! 🚀
💻 We're looking for a software engineer to support our research team and open-source community thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Open-Source Software Engineer
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...
thousandbrains.org
February 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
[WE'RE HIRING]
Join our awesome @thousandbrains.org team to build the future of machine intelligence! 🚀
💻 We're looking for a software engineer to support our research team and open-source community thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Join our awesome @thousandbrains.org team to build the future of machine intelligence! 🚀
💻 We're looking for a software engineer to support our research team and open-source community thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Reposted by Viviane Clay
🎙️ w/ Jeff Hawkins & @vivianeclay.bsky.social on @1000brainsproj.bsky.social & Jeff’s book.
Cortical columns, reference frames in knowledge representation, “voting” for perceptual consensus, Gibson’s affordances, fundamental problems vs impressive demos, and much more. @numentaofficial.bsky.social
Cortical columns, reference frames in knowledge representation, “voting” for perceptual consensus, Gibson’s affordances, fundamental problems vs impressive demos, and much more. @numentaofficial.bsky.social
EP 281 Jeff Hawkins and Viviane Clay on the Thousand Brains Theory - The Jim Rutt Show
Jim talks with Jeff Hawkins and Viviane Clay about the Thousand Brains Project & Jeff's book A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence.
www.jimruttshow.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🎙️ w/ Jeff Hawkins & @vivianeclay.bsky.social on @1000brainsproj.bsky.social & Jeff’s book.
Cortical columns, reference frames in knowledge representation, “voting” for perceptual consensus, Gibson’s affordances, fundamental problems vs impressive demos, and much more. @numentaofficial.bsky.social
Cortical columns, reference frames in knowledge representation, “voting” for perceptual consensus, Gibson’s affordances, fundamental problems vs impressive demos, and much more. @numentaofficial.bsky.social
It feels quite strange to make a roadmap discussion like this public! But it's just another part of our approach to totally open and transparent research at the @1000brainsproj
:) Let us know if you have any thoughts! thousandbrains.discourse.group/t/2025-01-q1...
:) Let us know if you have any thoughts! thousandbrains.discourse.group/t/2025-01-q1...
🚀 The 2025 Q1 Roadmap is here! 🎥✨
Join @vivianeclay.bsky.social & @cortical-canonical.bsky.social as they dive into this quarters 3 key pillars:
1️⃣ Fundamental Research Progress
2️⃣ Implement Past Years Research
3️⃣ Usability & Extensibility
🔗 Watch now & see whats next:
youtu.be/xlNKnu-it3I
Join @vivianeclay.bsky.social & @cortical-canonical.bsky.social as they dive into this quarters 3 key pillars:
1️⃣ Fundamental Research Progress
2️⃣ Implement Past Years Research
3️⃣ Usability & Extensibility
🔗 Watch now & see whats next:
youtu.be/xlNKnu-it3I
2025/01 - Q1 Roadmap
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
youtu.be
January 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
It feels quite strange to make a roadmap discussion like this public! But it's just another part of our approach to totally open and transparent research at the @1000brainsproj
:) Let us know if you have any thoughts! thousandbrains.discourse.group/t/2025-01-q1...
:) Let us know if you have any thoughts! thousandbrains.discourse.group/t/2025-01-q1...
I'm so excited to finally publish what I've been working on for the past 3 years! ☺️Check out this whitepaper outlining our novel approach to sensorimotor AI based on what we know about the neocortex 🧠https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18354
🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨
@vivianeclay.bsky.social, @cortical-canonical.bsky.social, and Jeff Hawkins introduce “A New Paradigm for Sensorimotor Intelligence.” 🤖✨
Learn how neocortical principles lay the foundation for a new type of AI 🧠
📝 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.18354
@vivianeclay.bsky.social, @cortical-canonical.bsky.social, and Jeff Hawkins introduce “A New Paradigm for Sensorimotor Intelligence.” 🤖✨
Learn how neocortical principles lay the foundation for a new type of AI 🧠
📝 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.18354
The Thousand Brains Project: A New Paradigm for Sensorimotor Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly in the last decade, driven primarily by progress in the scale of deep-learning systems. Despite these advances, the creation of intelligent systems that ca...
arxiv.org
December 31, 2024 at 7:54 AM
I'm so excited to finally publish what I've been working on for the past 3 years! ☺️Check out this whitepaper outlining our novel approach to sensorimotor AI based on what we know about the neocortex 🧠https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18354
Reposted by Viviane Clay
🎥 Optimizing Performance in Monty’s Learning Modules
In this video, @vivianeclay.bsky.social covers performance bottlenecks to fix and explores techniques like KD-tree search, locality sensitive hashing and matrix optimization to enhance performance.
📺 Watch now
youtu.be/JVz0Km98hLo
In this video, @vivianeclay.bsky.social covers performance bottlenecks to fix and explores techniques like KD-tree search, locality sensitive hashing and matrix optimization to enhance performance.
📺 Watch now
youtu.be/JVz0Km98hLo
2023/02 - Speedup Discussions - Part 1
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
youtu.be
December 31, 2024 at 3:29 AM
🎥 Optimizing Performance in Monty’s Learning Modules
In this video, @vivianeclay.bsky.social covers performance bottlenecks to fix and explores techniques like KD-tree search, locality sensitive hashing and matrix optimization to enhance performance.
📺 Watch now
youtu.be/JVz0Km98hLo
In this video, @vivianeclay.bsky.social covers performance bottlenecks to fix and explores techniques like KD-tree search, locality sensitive hashing and matrix optimization to enhance performance.
📺 Watch now
youtu.be/JVz0Km98hLo
It's finally out 🎬🍿
I'm happy to share that the movie I produced with my husband a few years ago is now available on several streaming services and on DVD! (Link in the thread 👇)
I'm happy to share that the movie I produced with my husband a few years ago is now available on several streaming services and on DVD! (Link in the thread 👇)
December 23, 2024 at 2:45 PM
It's finally out 🎬🍿
I'm happy to share that the movie I produced with my husband a few years ago is now available on several streaming services and on DVD! (Link in the thread 👇)
I'm happy to share that the movie I produced with my husband a few years ago is now available on several streaming services and on DVD! (Link in the thread 👇)
Reposted by Viviane Clay
@vivianeclay.bsky.social recently joined the Gen Z Diplomat Podcast with Ayush Prakash to discuss the Thousand Brains Project! 🧠✨ She explores how neuroscience could reshape our understanding of intelligence and its impact on the world youtu.be/aQmazrukbMk 🌐 #ThousandBrainsProject
A Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence - Dr. Viviane Clay
YouTube video by Ayush Prakash
youtu.be
December 13, 2024 at 2:34 PM
@vivianeclay.bsky.social recently joined the Gen Z Diplomat Podcast with Ayush Prakash to discuss the Thousand Brains Project! 🧠✨ She explores how neuroscience could reshape our understanding of intelligence and its impact on the world youtu.be/aQmazrukbMk 🌐 #ThousandBrainsProject
🍿 Watch the recording of our meetup if you missed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqFZ... I would say it's the best resource to get a quick overview of the @1000brainsproj.bsky.social Loved all the in-depth questions from the audience as well ♥️
December 6, 2024 at 9:46 AM
🍿 Watch the recording of our meetup if you missed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqFZ... I would say it's the best resource to get a quick overview of the @1000brainsproj.bsky.social Loved all the in-depth questions from the audience as well ♥️
🚀 Join our virtual launch symposium today! - 9 am PST (that's 6 pm in Germany)
It will be a great first introduction to the project! Hope to see you there ☺️
It will be a great first introduction to the project! Hope to see you there ☺️
Today’s the day! Live, online at 9 am PST, join Numenta’s Thousand Brains Project team for a deep dive into its theory and implementation - www.meetup.com/thousand-bra...
Thousand Brains Project Launch Symposium, Wed, Dec 4, 2024, 9:00 AM | Meetup
Join **Jeff Hawkins** and the Thousand Brains Project Team as we present the origin, vision, and execution of our new open-source initiative, the Thousand Brains Project. �
www.meetup.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:25 PM
🚀 Join our virtual launch symposium today! - 9 am PST (that's 6 pm in Germany)
It will be a great first introduction to the project! Hope to see you there ☺️
It will be a great first introduction to the project! Hope to see you there ☺️
Reposted by Viviane Clay
⚡️ Viviane Clay presents our first entry in the archived category: "Initial Evidence-Based LM and Voting Implementation". Superseded but still worth a watch: youtu.be/0Gcw1itpbWM
2022/09 - The Initial Evidence-Based LM and Voting Implementation
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
youtu.be
December 4, 2024 at 3:41 AM
⚡️ Viviane Clay presents our first entry in the archived category: "Initial Evidence-Based LM and Voting Implementation". Superseded but still worth a watch: youtu.be/0Gcw1itpbWM
Reposted by Viviane Clay
🌟 tbp.monty surpassed 100 stars on GitHub! Huge thanks to our contributors & supporters for making this happen. 🚀 Let’s keep building together! 🎉 github.com/thousandbrainsproject/tbp.monty
GitHub - thousandbrainsproject/tbp.monty: Monty is a sensorimotor learning framework based on the thousand brains theory of the neocortex.
Monty is a sensorimotor learning framework based on the thousand brains theory of the neocortex. - thousandbrainsproject/tbp.monty
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November 26, 2024 at 11:25 PM
🌟 tbp.monty surpassed 100 stars on GitHub! Huge thanks to our contributors & supporters for making this happen. 🚀 Let’s keep building together! 🎉 github.com/thousandbrainsproject/tbp.monty