Fly Brain HubGizmodo: Fruit Fly Brain Plays Doom and Super Mario 64
Gizmodo
News piece by Bruce Gil covering the wave of hobbyist simulations that followed the September 3, 2026 release of the male fruit fly CNS connectome (MaleCNS v1.0) by Google and HHMI Janelia. It profiles Alex Wormuth's Doom-playing fly brain, Jessica Paquette's Super Mario 64 run, a Minecraft port, and posture and animation experiments. The article frames the dataset as the largest brain map by neuron count, at over 166,000 neurons.
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- gizmodo.com https://gizmodo.com/google-mapped-a-fruit-flys-brain-now-its-playing-doom-and-super-mario-64-2000808616