Google maps the complete male fruit fly brain, an AI-for-science connectomics milestone
tazecode · reddit · 2026-09-13
The author shares Google Research's blog on mapping the complete male fruit fly brain connectome, calling it a connectomics milestone and joking it's even more successful than Gemini.
It's a flagship AI-for-science effort showing AI's value in large-scale microscopy analysis and neural circuit reconstruction.
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