Trent Loos explores energy use, economic impact and research comparing the human brain to modern supercomputers.

Researchers have created one of the most detailed virtual mouse cortex simulations ever achieved by combining massive biological datasets with the extraordinary power of Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer.

In 2024, researchers completed the first-ever map of the circuitry of a fruit fly’s brain. Despite its diminutive size, the organ packs almost 500 feet of wiring and 54.5 million synapses into the ...

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream. They say their ...

The race to understand the brain has just crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction. Using one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, researchers have assembled a digital mouse cortex ...

China’s latest neuromorphic project has pushed a once speculative idea into the realm of claimed reality: a monkey’s brain activity, recreated inside a supercomputer. The country’s researchers say ...

Researchers in China recently made an astonishing announcement: They’d created a supercomputer modeled on a monkey’s brain. Researchers at the National Key Laboratory of Brain-Computer Intelligence at ...

German neuromorphic supercomputing company SpiNNcloud Systems GmbH today announced that Sandia National Laboratories has officially deployed its new SpiNNaker2 brain-inspired supercomputer, marking a ...

Computers that operate on the same principles as the brain could be key to slashing AI’s massive energy bills. Sandia National Laboratories has just switched on a device capable of simulating between ...

What would it mean to simulate a human brain? Today’s most powerful computing systems now contain enough computational firepower to run simulations of billions of neurons, comparable to the ...