A Fruit Fly Connectome Learned to Play Chess and 'Was Destroying Opus 5'
maximelabonne · x · 2026-09-17
Maxime Labonne trained a chess-playing model built from the complete adult fruit fly connectome (FlyWire), claiming the fly found solutions far beyond human comprehension and that he "had to stop training it because it was destroying Opus 5." Demo and model are available on Hugging Face; full technical details in the model card.
Related event: Fly Brain Chess Model Claims to Crush Opus 5(2 posts)→
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