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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Really excited to have this paper published 🚀 We built a new type of AI, based on principles of the neocortex 🧠, and observed a range of advantages, from extreme energy and data efficiency to continual learning, OOD generalization, and robustness. Check out the paper!

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 24/02/2026

Jeff Hawkins and @vivianeclay.bsky.social answer "How Can the Wide Variety of Cognitive Functions All Be Achieved With One Algorithm?" Watch the full “Meet Monty 2026: Reverse Engineering Intelligence” webinar and Q&A here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 09/01/2026

@vivianeclay.bsky.social reviews the TBP 2025 highlights and our direction for 2026, from Monty’s first sensor movements in the real world to the idea of a new Solutions Incubator. Many amazing things have been accomplished with more to come! Watch now: youtu.be/x-r84LkT8L0

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2026/01 - 2025 Review / 2026 Direction & Goals

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 15/12/2025

Reminder! Dec 17 at 9 AM PST: Jeff Hawkins, @vivianeclay.bsky.social, @cortical-canonical.bsky.social, and the Thousand Brains Project team will give a simple, easy-to-follow intro to the Thousand Brains Project and the machine intelligence we are building. 👉 Join us: www.meetup.com/thousand-bra...

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Join our meetup next Wednesday to see all the exciting things we've been up to over the past year! If you want to catch up with our project and get a high-level overview of what we do, this 2-hour meeting with nine short talks from everyone on our team would be the ideal opportunity!

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 26/11/2025

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...

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 10/10/2025

🚨 @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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✅ What's the Most Surprising Capability Monty Gains Through Sensorimotor Learning #sensorimotorai

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 06/10/2025

🚨 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

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What is the Origin of the Idea that the Brain is Hierarchical? #AI #ThousandBrains #Thalamus

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 02/09/2025

🚨 @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

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You Measured FLOPs and Found Savings of Up to Eight Orders of Magnitude, What Does This Unlock? #ai

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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...

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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…

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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...

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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...

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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.

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 14/08/2025

🚨 @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

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What Neuroscience Insight was Non-Negotiable in the Design of Monty? #sensorimotorai #ai

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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."

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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 🧠

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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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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…

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 04/04/2025

🚀 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

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2025/04 - TBP Positive Impact

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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 🤖

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

[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...

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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...

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

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

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 31/12/2024

🎥 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

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2023/02 - Speedup Discussions - Part 1

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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 👇)

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 13/12/2024

@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

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A Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence - Dr. Viviane Clay

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🍿 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 ♥️

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2024/12 Open-Source Launch Symposium

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

🚀 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 ☺️

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 04/12/2024

⚡️ 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

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2022/09 - The Initial Evidence-Based LM and Voting Implementation

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 26/11/2024

🌟 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

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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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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 26/11/2024

🚨 Dive into the fascinating world of Grid Cells with Jeff Hawkins as he unravels their role in spatial representation, path integration, and reference frames in the brain 🧠. From place cells to oscillatory interference & beyond. Don’t miss this! youtu.be/zRRazfFstvY

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2024/10 - Review of Grid Cells and how Reference Frames are Crucial for Learning Structured Models

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It finally happened! The @1000brainsproj.bsky.social is open-source 🚀 What does the future of AI look like? I am betting it will be sensorimotor 🦾 This is our first implementation of an AI system based closely on how the neocortex works 🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbqZ...

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What is the Thousand Brains Project all About?

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Numenta 🧠 @numentaofficial.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We launched the code! Now let's talk about it. We sat down with @vivianeclay.bsky.social, Director of the Thousand Brains Project, for a Q&A where she shared the vision, goals, and future impact of this exciting project. 🚀 www.numenta.com/blog/2024/11... @1000brainsproj.bsky.social #opensource

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Q&A with Viviane Clay, Director of the Thousand Brains Project

In this Q&A, we talked to the Viviane Clay, director of the Thousand Brains Project, Numenta’s new open-source research initiative.

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 20/11/2024

Join us on the 4th of December at 9 AM PST for a presentation by Jeff Hawkins and the Thousand Brains Project team, where we give an overview of the new open-source initiative and building AI based on principles of the neocortex. 🧠 Join us 👉 www.meetup.com/thousand-bra... #ThousandBrainsProject

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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. �

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 19/11/2024

🎥 Just launched: The New Monty Overview! 🚀 @vivianeclay.bsky.social dives into Monty’s sensorimotor modeling system: 🔍 Object & pose detection 🧩 Modular design 📈 Learning efficiency 🌍 Multi-object environments 🤖 Real-world sensor integration youtu.be/yJBhZkkZ-XM #ThousandBrainsProject

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2024/01 - Current Capabilities of the first TBP Implementation, Monty

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is a must see event if you're interested in open-source #ai beyond LLMs and the current paradigm. The Thousand Brains Project is open sourcing #ai that works on the principles of the human neocortex. www.meetup.com/thousand-bra... #ai #sensorimotor #si

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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. �

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