"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

Today, we’re announcing the first major discovery made by our AI Scientist with the lab in the loop: a promising new treatment for dry AMD, a major cause of blindness. Our agents generated the hypotheses, designed the experiments, analyzed the data, iterated, even made figures

Physics physics physics! #veo3

1/ What if we make robots that process touch the way our brains do? We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data. New paper by Yuchen Shen Nathan Kong Aran Nayebi and me!

Mice dorsal cortex hosts overlapping visual and tactile sensory maps, forming an abstract representation of peripersonal space that enables spontaneous generalization of spatial task rules. Co-led this study with Maëlle Guyoton in Sami El-Boustani! More details down here... 🧠👇

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us."

A new study from our lab, in collaboration with G. Kreiman Gabriel Kreiman group. We developed a feature visualization approach that allows exploring the selectivity and invariance fields of units in deep neural nets - with possible application to biological visual neurons.

Neuralink Update, Summer 2025 youtu.be/FASMejN_5gs?fe… via YouTube

Here's how a dynamic scence could look to a blind brain implant user (with a future device such as Neuralink's) with with around 1k implanted electrodes, according to our simulations done with our great team in the Netherlands Left: original image (captured with a camera)

🧠 One month ago, we published our study in Nature Communications showing how mice generalize knowledge across vision and touch, thanks to an abstract representation of peripersonal space in their dorsal cortex. Missed it? Check it out 👇

Un uomo ironico e coltissimo. Un vero, grande scienziato. È morto il genetista Edoardo Boncinelli corriere.it/cultura/25_lug…

🔦 New Trends in Neurosciences spotlight on our recent Nature Communications paper! How do brains generalise spatial information across sensory modalities? Our study identifies a region in the dorsal cortex of mice enabling them to transfer spatial knowledge between vision and touch!🖐🏻👀

Very fascinating result by Petr Znamenskiy and collaborators! It may mirror the topographic correspondence we observed between visual and tactile spatial maps in mouse associative areas👇🏻

🚨 Finally out in Nature Machine Intelligence!! "Visual representations in the human brain are aligned with large language models" nature.com/articles/s4225…

"What chess taught me about neuroscience" by Olivier Marre trialsanderrors.substack.com/p/what-chess-t… A thoughtful essay on the interplay between data accumulation and theory in neuroscience, and how hopes of a grand theory of the brain may never pan out.

Emergence of Brains journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstra…

Our first steps into sensory processing is now online! Work spearheaded by Rejwan and Luis Cobar We were lucky to receive guidance from Davide Zoccolan on the analytical methods. The work was funded by Norges forskningsråd NTNU medisin og helse Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions