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Software engineer Alex Wormuth created a simulated fruit fly brain using a detailed neural map from Google and HHMI Janelia Research. The simulation, containing 25.6 million connections, processes game frames to control Doom. The project demonstrates the map's potential for neuroscience and has inspired other developers to teach the fly brain to play Super Mario 64 and Beat Saber.
The Fly Language Model (FLM) is a public chatbot that integrates the complete MaleCNS v1.0 fruit fly connectome with a frozen LiquidAI LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct backbone. The developer reports that a parameter-matched control model without the fly graph performs slightly better, indicating the biological wiring does not improve performance. The project is MIT-licensed and runs locally on Python 3.12.
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