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Morning Edition · Monday, October 19, 2026Published at 2:14 AM EDT · New York
Odyssey runs a connectome-based fruit fly brain inside its Odyssey-3 world model, with no paper to back the demonstration
The company has not said which connectome it used or how the frames generated by its world model reach the simulated fly's sensory inputs.
Odyssey, a world-model startup, says it has connected a software model of a fruit fly's brain to Odyssey-3 and that the simulated insect now moves through generated virtual worlds on its own, AI ML Big Data reported. The company announced t…
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