This was not on Jane Goodall’s bingo card. With 2 billion neurons, researchers say the DeepSeek-powered Darwin Monkey is a major step toward ‘brain-like intelligence.’
We’re already getting glimpses of AI technology that goes far beyond chatbots to model the brains of living beings.
Chinese researchers say they created an AI version of a monkey’s brain, and put it on a computer. It has 960 chips, and each one « supports over 2 billion spiking neurons and over 100 billion synapses, approaching the number of neurons in a macaque brain », according to Zhejiang University, as translated by Google.
Researchers named the project the Darwin Monkey and say it’s « a step toward more advanced brain-like intelligence. » It’s the largest brain-like, or « neuromorphic », computer in the world, and the first that’s based on neuromorphic-specific chips, Interesting Engineering reports.
Are human brains next? That might take a while.
