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Thousand Brains Project
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Advancing AI & robotics by reverse engineering the neocortex.
Leveraging sensorimotor learning, structured reference frames, & cortical modularity.
Open-source research backed by Jeff Hawkins & Gates Foundation.
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🚨 @cortical-canonical.bsky.social responds to "The Brain Uses Twenty Watts of Power, Will Monty be as Efficient?"

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#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI
The Brain Uses Twenty Watts of Power, Will Monty be as Efficient? #sensorimotorai #transformers
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November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
✨Jeff Hawkins, @vivianeclay.bsky.social and @cortical-canonical.bsky.social summarize the meeting “HTM Sequence Memory and Time and Grid Cells in the Neocortex”

Watch the full video here: youtu.be/6NSDjcR3nOk
Summary - HTM Sequence Memory and Time and Grid Cells in the Neocortex ? #sensorimotorai
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November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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🚨 Jeff Hawkins, @cortical-canonical.bsky.social and @vivianeclay.bsky.social respond to “Why Does the Neocortex Need to Know How its Sensors are Moving?”

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#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI #Thalamus
Why Does the Neocortex Need to Know How its Sensors are Moving? #SensorimotorAI #Thalamus
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November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social responds to "What is Catastrophic Forgetting and Why Does Monty Not Suffer From it?"

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
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#Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI
What is Catastrophic Forgetting and Why Does Monty Not Suffer From it? #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains
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October 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
@cortical_canon presents the Thousand Brains Project to a sensorimotor-AI community in this RL Debates session.

Watch here:

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#AI #Neuroscience #SensorimotorAI
RL Debates 3: Niels "you have 1000 brains in your brain" Leadholm
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October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
✨ Jeff Hawkins gives a summary of today’s research meeting where we discuss “How Does the Neocortex Split and Combine Models Without Relearning?”

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Watch the full video here: youtu.be/VwzYkISYnWQ
Summary - How Does the Neocortex Split and Combine Models Without Relearning? #ai #sensorimotorai
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October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🚨 Jeff Hawkins and @vivianeclay.bsky.social respond to “So the Thalamus is Not a Relay Station, What is it For?”

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
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#ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI #Thalamus
So the Thalamus is Not a Relay Station, What is it For? #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI #Thalamus
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October 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
@vivianeclay.bsky.social gives a summary of today’s research meeting where we discuss a “Proposal for How Columns Learn Sequences and Behaviors”

Watch the full video here: youtu.be/01U-ZXEjEsc
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social and @cortical-canonical.bsky.social respond to “How Are Models Merged and How Will Monty Scale to Thousands of Models?”

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
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How Are Models Merged and How Will Monty Scale to Thousands of Models? #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains
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October 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
@cortical-canonical.bsky.social gives a summary of today’s research meeting where we discuss “Modeling and Evaluating Compositional Object Representations.”

Watch the full video here: youtu.be/boAYuEy7A9o
October 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
🚨 Jeff Hawkins responds to “What New Insights Does Your Paper Provide on Neocortical Long-Range Connections”

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
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#AI #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI #Thalamus
What New Insights Does Your Paper Provide on Neocortical Long Range Connections? #sensorimotorai
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October 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Next Thursday (Oct 23) Niels Leadholm from @thousandbrains.org will present.

- See the full schedule here: sensorimotorai.github.io/schedule/

- Join our Slack: join.slack.com/t/sensorimot...

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Schedule
Monthly journal club and RL Debate Series
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October 18, 2025 at 6:26 AM
🚨 @canoetrip.bsky.social, @vivianeclay.bsky.social and
@cortical-canonical.bsky.social respond to “Monty Has a Shape Over Feature Bias, What Perturbations Cause Monty to Fail?”

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#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI
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October 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
📼 New video: Abhi presents his year of work exploring how dendritic architectures can enhance deep learning, and how spatial pooling, temporal memory, and grid cells could be integrated into Monty.

Watch now! youtu.be/FVYhDCFxgy0
2022/08 - Spatial Pooler & Temporal Memory for Monty
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October 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🚨 Jeff Hawkins responds to “Hierarchy or Heterarchy - Which One Describes the Neocortex Better?”

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

#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI #Thalamus
Hierarchy or Heterarchy - Which One Describes the Neocortex Better? #AI #ThousandBrains #Thalamus
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October 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social and @cortical-canonical.bsky.social respond to “What's the Most Surprising Capability Monty Gains Through Sensorimotor Learning?”

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
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✅ What's the Most Surprising Capability Monty Gains Through Sensorimotor Learning #sensorimotorai
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October 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🛎️ New Video Alert!

Watch the final presentations of our focus week.

The four projects were
- Python Upgrade
- Salience Showdown
- Exponential Moving Average Evidence-Bounded Scores
- Compositional Object Test Bed Bed

Watch now: 👉 youtu.be/A1cOwvZpgjU
October 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
📺 New Video Drop ✅

@vivianeclay.bsky.social walks through Q3 progress and the priorities for Q4.

- improving Monty’s compositional modeling,
- ease of use, and
- theoretical grounding in behavior.

Watch now: youtu.be/3LN5SeSJhOg?...
2025/10 - 2025 Q3 Review
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October 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
✨ 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
2025/09 - Brighton Retreat Kickoff
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October 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
🚨 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
What is the Origin of the Idea that the Brain is Hierarchical? #AI #ThousandBrains #Thalamus
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October 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
@cortical-canonical.bsky.social responds to “In a Nutshell, What is a Thousand Brains System?”

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Read the plain language explainer: lnkd.in/g6hWS_Cx

#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI
In a Nutshell, What is a Thousand Brains System? #AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI
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October 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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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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October 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
🚀 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 - GPU-Backed Learning Modules 2
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October 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🚀 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
2025/08/28 GPU Support Meeting
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September 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM