https://yakinin.com/en/tags/%23agi/ Recent content in #AGI on Home Hugo -- 0.148.2 en Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://yakinin.com/en/posts/20250411-mouse-brain-digitization-ai/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://yakinin.com/en/posts/20250411-mouse-brain-digitization-ai/ <div style="display: flex; justify-content: center; gap: 1em; flex-wrap: wrap;"> <img src="https://yakinin.com/img/20250411-mouse-brain-digitization-ai-0.jpg" style="max-width: 350px; width: 100%;" /> </div> <p>Scientists recently digitized a single cubic millimeter of a mouse&rsquo;s visual cortex, a project that generated 1.6 petabytes of data to map 84,000 neurons and half a billion synapses.</p> <p>To put that into perspective, the number of synapses in that tiny piece of brain tissue is comparable to the number of parameters in large-scale AI like DeepSeek or GPT models. It&rsquo;s significantly more than the 29 billion parameters in a model like GigaChat. This comparison is a useful analogy for scale and complexity: just as synapses determine a brain&rsquo;s processing capacity, parameters define the &ldquo;power&rdquo; of an AI.</p>