Digital Brain Project scales to $15M to open-source neural data and model the human brain
ShahabBakht · x · 2026-11-04
- The Digital Brain Project has scaled up to a $15M fund, coordinated by the Rothschild Hospital Foundation alongside the Stanford Digital Brain Project, aiming to open-source neural data and build foundation models of the human brain.
- Approach: neuroscience teams worldwide will record participants' brain activity in fMRI scanners while they play complex interactive games spanning visual, language, and auditory modalities — capturing reasoning, planning, and decision-making in action — targeting 15k hours of naturalistic brain data.
- Training & evaluation: the resulting "digital brain" model will be validated against cognitive science tasks (perception, memory, attention, executive function) and AI-style reasoning benchmarks (planning, logic, structured problem-solving).
- Goal: fast-track advances in neural disease diagnosis and treatment through large-scale collaborative research.
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