The $300 Million Brain Simulation That Became Open Source

Scientists Spent $300 Million Simulating Brains. They Still Can't Explain Yours

TLDR: The Blue Brain Project spent 20 years and 300 million Swiss francs trying to reverse-engineer the human brain. When funding ended in December 2024, they did something remarkable: open-sourced 18 million lines of code and petabytes of brain data. Now reborn as the Open Brain Institute, they're betting that understanding biological intelligence might unlock the secrets of artificial intelligence.

Scientists Spent $300 Million Simulating Brains. They Still Can't Explain Yours

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