A complete fly brain model can now run on a phone
haydendevs · x · 2026-09-12
A striking one-liner: a complete fly brain model is small enough to run on a phone. The fruit fly was the first organism with a fully mapped connectome (140,000 neurons), and the fact that its full brain simulation fits on a phone signals how compact and efficient computational neuroscience models have become.
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