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How do Different Parts of the Neocortex Vote on What They are Seeing or Touching? #sensorimotorai

November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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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.

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November 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social and Jeff Hawkins respond to “How do Different Parts of the Neocortex Vote on What They are Seeing or Touching?”

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#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI #Thalamus

Summary - Exploring Benchmarks for Hierarchical Learning and Compositional Object Models

November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Thousand Brains Project

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✨Jeff Hawkins and @cortical-canonical.bsky.social give a summary of today’s research meeting where we discuss “Exploring Benchmarks for Hierarchical Learning and Compositional Object Models”.

Watch the summary here: youtube.com/shorts/LMDZd...

Watch the full video here: youtu.be/ElO4SzHrg5g

2023/07 - Legend of Monty - Part 2

November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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New video drop! 🚀
@vivianeclay.bsky.social and @cortical-canonical.bsky.social take us on a tour of NuPIC Island, sharing Monty’s progress and the milestones shaping what comes next.
Watch the journey unfold 📺
youtu.be/9j4z0DCCvOE

The Brain Is Vast and Complex, How Much Is Left to Understand? #sensorimotorai

November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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🚨 Jeff Hawkins responds to “The Brain Is Vast and Complex, How Much Is Left to Understand?”

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/hierarchy-or...
Watch the full video: youtu.be/QIoENhFu2VU

#AI #SensorimotorAI

2025/09 - Ramy Presents tbp.plot, Widgets, Pub-Sub Pattern

November 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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📊 @ramymounir.com presents tbp.plot, widgets, pub-sub pattern for how to build interactive visualizations on top of Monty data.

youtu.be/5GrnX66X8kA

2025/10 Community Shoutouts

November 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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💖 @vivianeclay.bsky.social thanks the community for their excellent contributions.

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The Brain Uses Twenty Watts of Power, Will Monty be as Efficient? #sensorimotorai #transformers

November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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

#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI

Summary - HTM Sequence Memory and Time and Grid Cells in the Neocortex ? #sensorimotorai

November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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✨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

Why Does the Neocortex Need to Know How its Sensors are Moving? #SensorimotorAI #Thalamus

November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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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

What is Catastrophic Forgetting and Why Does Monty Not Suffer From it? #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains

November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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🚨 @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
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...

#Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI

RL Debates 3: Niels "you have 1000 brains in your brain" Leadholm

October 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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💡 Want to help shape our next community event?

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October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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@cortical_canon presents the Thousand Brains Project to a sensorimotor-AI community in this RL Debates session.

Watch here:

youtu.be/Q0FFfbYzE1s

#AI #Neuroscience #SensorimotorAI

YouTube video by Sensorimotor AI

Summary - How Does the Neocortex Split and Combine Models Without Relearning? #ai #sensorimotorai

October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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✨ Jeff Hawkins gives a summary of today’s research meeting where we discuss “How Does the Neocortex Split and Combine Models Without Relearning?”

youtube.com/shorts/HexNV...

Watch the full video here: youtu.be/VwzYkISYnWQ

So the Thalamus is Not a Relay Station, What is it For? #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI #Thalamus

October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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🚨 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
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/hierarchy-or...

#ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI #Thalamus

How Are Models Merged and How Will Monty Scale to Thousands of Models? #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains

October 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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✨ @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

Thousand Brains Project

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🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social and @cortical-canonical.bsky.social respond to “How Are Models Merged and How Will Monty Scale to Thousands of Models?”

youtube.com/shorts/5jpvF...

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

What New Insights Does Your Paper Provide on Neocortical Long Range Connections? #sensorimotorai

October 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM

Thousand Brains Project

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✨ @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

Thousand Brains Project

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🚨 Jeff Hawkins responds to “What New Insights Does Your Paper Provide on Neocortical Long-Range Connections”

youtube.com/shorts/yQAVZ...

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

#AI #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI #Thalamus

Monthly journal club and RL Debate Series

October 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM

Reposted by Thousand Brains Project

Hadi Vafaii

@hadivafaii.bsky.social

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

sensorimotorai.github.io

October 18, 2025 at 6:26 AM

Thousand Brains Project

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🚨 @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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