Google maps the complete male fruit fly brain in connectomics milestone
ThePlanckDiver · reddit · 2026-09-04
Google Research announced the completion of the connectome mapping of the entire male fruit fly brain, calling it a connectomics milestone. A complete map of all neural connections provides foundational data for understanding neural circuits and informing AI architecture research, detailed on the Google Research blog.
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