Thousand Brains Project

2026/02 - Community Shout-Outs YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

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@vivianeclay.bsky.social thanks the community for their exciting contributions in February 2026.💙

2026/02 - A Thousand Brains on a Thousand Chips: Scaling Monty on CPUs, GPUs, and PiM Chips YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

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A Thousand Brains on a Thousand Chips: Scaling Monty on CPUs, GPUs, and PiM chips

🧠Xavier presents his exciting work on how Thousand Brains systems, like Monty, could scale on modern hardware. Comparing GPUs, CPUs, and processing-in-memory chips, he tests how scaling to thousands of learning modules affects performance.

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2025/12 - Focus Week Recap on Actions and Behaviors YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

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🧠 @cortical-canonical.bsky.social recaps some of our key takeaways from the November focus brainstorming week. We talked about learning causality, inverse causality, and potential neural implementations for this.

@cortical-canonical.bsky.social @vivianeclay.bsky.social and Jeff Hawkins respond to "What’s the largest scale Monty has been trained on in terms of data and compute? Do we have confidence it will scale well in performance, and if so, why?"
Watch the full Q&A here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

BBC Audio | The Artificial Human | Are Large Language Models a Dead End? Aleks and Kevin ask if the technology behind our most popular AI tools is a dead end.

🎧 Check out BBC’s latest Artificial Human podcast episode on alternatives to LLMs. It features Jeff Hawkins, talking about the Thousand Brains Project (starting at ~14:15) www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

🧠 Jeff Hawkins summarizes our research meeting, where we discussed representations in the superior colliculus and the role it plays in motor function.

Watch the full video here: youtu.be/i4ILVYGurBs

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...

🚀 Jeff Hawkins presents the mission of the Thousand Brains Project and our goals for 2026 and beyond.

Watch his 7-minute talk to get a glimpse of where the TBP is headed: youtu.be/T2a0FIY2kBA

🧠 Jeff Hawkins summarizes a recent research meeting where we discussed the hippocampal complex and its relationship to the neocortex.
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@cortical-canonical.bsky.social and @vivianeclay.bsky.social respond to "Can inference and learning run at the same time in Monty?

Watch the full “Meet Monty 2026: Reverse Engineering Intelligence” webinar here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI #Monty

2026/01 - Community Shout-Outs YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

@vivianeclay.bsky.social thanks the community for their exciting contributions in January 2026. youtube.com/watch?v=g23K... 💙 If this made you curious about contributing yourself, check out our documentation to see how you could get involved: thousandbrainsproject.readme.io/docs/contrib...

💡 Jeff Hawkins gives a summary of our recent research meeting, where we discussed how the cortex could learn causal relationships between actions and observed changes in the world.

Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAbG...

2025/12 - Our Path to an Easy-to-Use Platform YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

🚀 Tristan walks through our current strategy for taking Monty from a research codebase to an easy-to-use platform, and how the community can help make it real.
Watch now: youtu.be/kXoB49lcnAo

2025/11 - Discussing Attention, Causality, and the Role of the Hippocampus for Action Outputs YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

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🧠 @vivianeclay.bsky.social summarizes one of our research meetings where we discuss attention, causality, and the role of the hippocampus in producing action outputs.

2025/12 - Ways to Contribute YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

🧠 Will Warren presents the many ways you can contribute to the Thousand Brains Project and Monty. Come and see how to get involved in building a new kind of machine intelligence and see what others have done in the last 12 months.
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2025/11 - Cortical Columns Across Species YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

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Summary - Cortical Columns Across Species #neuroscience YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

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✨ Jeff Hawkins gives a summary of a research meeting where we discuss cortical columns across species.

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2025/12 - Making a Pull Request to tbp.monty YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

💻 Jeremy Shoemaker walks through the steps to submit your first pull request to tbp.monty. A hands-on guide to contributing to a new kind of machine intelligence.

Watch now: youtu.be/79PXMlcxtRQ

Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain In the traditional understanding of the neocortex, sensory information flows up a hierarchy of regions, with each level processing increasingly complex features. Information also flows down the hierar...

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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

What Are the Next Areas of Research That TBP Is Focusing On? #sensorimotorai #thalamus YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

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💡 Jeff Hawkins responds to “What Are the Next Areas of Research That TBP Is Focusing On?”

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#Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI #Thalamus

Meet Monty 2026: Reverse Engineering Intelligence - YouTube This playlist is a presentation of our December, 2025 community meetup “Meet Monty 2026: Reverse Engineering Intelligence” It features nine short talks from ...

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Watch the full “Meet Monty 2026: Reverse Engineering Intelligence” webinar here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Get the code: github.com/thousandbrai...
Chat with our community: thousandbrains.discourse.group
Read the docs: thousandbrainsproject.readme.io

Is Monty Capable of Learning From Time Series Data? #sensorimotorai #monty YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

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💡 @vivianeclay.bsky.social responds to “Is Monty Capable of Learning From Time Series Data?”

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#ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI #Monty

2025/12 - Looking Inside Monty’s “Brain” YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

📊 @ramymounir.com uses interactive visualizations to explain how Monty forms and prunes object hypotheses during inference. A look inside Monty’s learning modules.

Watch now: youtu.be/xbhf4yzpzx8

Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain In the traditional understanding of the neocortex, sensory information flows up a hierarchy of regions, with each level processing increasingly complex features. Information also flows down the hierar...

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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

Why is This Theory of the Neocortex Useful for Making Smarter AI and Robots? #sensorimotorai YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

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💡 Jeff Hawkins responds to “Why is This Theory of the Neocortex Useful for Making Smarter AI and Robots?”

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#Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI #Thalamus

2025/12 - Getting Started With Monty YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project

📝 @hojaeklee.bsky.social walks through configuring and running your first Monty experiment, starting with a live demo and followed by an overview of the Monty class architecture and how to build custom configs.

Watch: youtu.be/z1tr34V1YV0