Google team pushes neural cellular automata to multi-step visual reasoning
bratton · x · 2026-11-12
Google's Paradigms of Intelligence team released "Reasoning with Neural Cellular Automata (NCA)", exploring whether complex multi-step reasoning can emerge purely from cells that only talk to immediate neighbors. The team pushed fully local NCA models further on visual reasoning, arguing the "hardware lottery is also the hardware curse" and that this opens the door to efficient, robust, scalable hardware designs.
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