Six months building a connectome-inspired fruit fly simulator with AI. It just launched on iPhone.

Earlier this month, Google Research and HHMI Janelia published the complete wiring diagram of a male fruit fly’s brain and central nervous system: more than 166,000 neurons and 125 million synaptic connections. By strange coincidence, I had just finished building Fly Lab, a small artificial-life laboratory for iPhone. To be completely clear: Fly Lab does not run the complete 166,000-neuron connectome on your phone. It uses a compact, interpretable model inspired by published fruit-fly be