What we’re about
Welcome to the Thousand Brains Project meetup! We are a community focused on building an implementation of the Thousand Brains Theory on a path to true machine intelligence. Whether you're a seasoned AI professional or just beginning your journey in the field, this group is the perfect place to connect with like-minded individuals, share ideas, and learn together. Join us for insightful discussions, workshops, and networking opportunities as we work towards a better understanding of how this new form of AI will shape the world.
Chat with us on our discourse server - https://thousandbrains.discourse.group/
Upcoming events
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•OnlineMeet Monty 2026: Reverse Engineering Intelligence
OnlineWe’re pleased to invite you to an online Meetup on December 17th from 9 AM to 11:30 AM PST, where Jeff Hawkins, Viviane Clay, and the entire Thousand Brains Project team will give a series of short talks covering what the project is, how Monty works, how to get started, and how to get involved. There will be a lot of valuable information.
This will be a great event to attend for anyone curious about the project and what we have been up to the past year, whether you know nothing about Monty, or have been following the project closely since last year's symposium.
Agenda
- The legend of Monty. Follow the Thousand Brains Project team on its journey to see how we got to where we are today. Viviane Clay
- Why care? See what Monty can do. Niels Leadholm
- Meet Monty. Fundamental principles and how they relate to the neocortex. Scott Knudstrup
- Getting started with Monty. Running your first experiment, including a brief intro to configs and Monty’s class structure, plus where to find more information. Hojae Lee
- Looking into Monty’s “brain.” Interactive visualizations to get an intuitive understanding of how Monty thinks and learns. Ramy Mounir
- Ways to contribute. How to find your path into the project. Will Warren
- Making a PR to tbp.monty. The PR process from idea to merge, including tests, style checks, and benchmarks. Jeremy Shoemaker
- Our path to an easy-to-use platform. How we’re planning to evolve Monty into an easy to use platform and how the community can help. Tristan Slominski
- Next year and beyond. TBP’s mission and what we are working on next. Jeff Hawkins
- Q&A session
We hope you can join us. We’re looking forward to sharing our progress and discussing where the next year is headed. An interactive Q&A session will follow the talks, so please bring your questions!
What is the Thousand Brains Project?
The efforts of Jeff Hawkins, Numenta, and the Thousand Brains Project to understand how the brain works started over 30 years ago and culminated in the publication of the Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence. Since then, we’ve been thinking about how to apply our insights about the neocortex to artificial intelligence. As described in this theory, it is clear that the brain works on principles fundamentally different from those used in current AI systems. To build the kind of efficient and robust intelligence that we know humans are capable of, we need to design a new type of artificial intelligence. This is what the Thousand Brains Project is doing.
Learn more about us on our website https://thousandbrains.org
What (or who) is Monty?
Monty is what we affectionately call our first implementation of a Thousand Brains System. It is an open-source code base (MIT license) that our team has been developing and testing over the past few years.
You can check out the code here https://github.com/thousandbrainsproject/tbp.monty and read about its capabilities here https://thousandbrains.org/thousand-brain-systems-sensorimotor-intelligence-for-rapid-robust-learning-and-inference-a-plain-language-explainer116 attendees
