Fruit fly brain as an LLM: connectome-driven language model demo goes live
ngxson · x · 2026-09-11
Developer ngxson demoed an experiment turning the fruit fly brain connectome into an LLM, with a live demo where the fly's neural circuitry drives text generation. Weights compatible with HF transformers were later released on Hugging Face.
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