A simulated fruit-fly brain with 138,639 neurons mapped from the FlyWire connectome plays the grand strategy game Open Doctrines in real-time in a browser. The brain receives sensory inputs based on game events and produces commands that control a country's actions, though it performs poorly at strategy since it evolved for survival, not governance.
Fly.exe is a neural simulator that runs a complete male fruit fly brain connectome (165,122 neurons and 25.5 million synaptic connections) in a physics-based virtual environment on a single GPU. Twelve simulated flies with embodied neural circuits navigate a virtual arena with food and obstacles, demonstrating goal-directed behavior driven purely by their connectome-based neural networks without explicit steering rules.
A simulated fruit fly brain with 165,122 neurons and 10 million synaptic connections was connected to a token launchpad on Robinhood Chain, launching the memecoin $FLYBRAIN which reached $50M market cap and generated $106,600 in fees within hours. The project, built by @fruitflydev using real Drosophila connectome data, demonstrated an unusual application of neuroscience to cryptocurrency, though the system's reliance on a local computer made it vulnerable to power outages.
Google Research and HHMI Janelia have completed a connectome map of the male fruit fly brain, containing 166,000 neurons and 125 million synaptic connections. This largest-to-date brain map, achieved through AI and human verification, will help scientists understand how brains work across species and potentially repair neural damage.