State of Brain Emulation Report 2025 | Research Overview

Comprehensive research report on whole brain emulation: 20 years of progress in neural recording, connectomics, and computational neuroscience.

State of Brain Emulation Report 2025 | Research Overview Skip to main content Key Findings Data is the bottleneck, not hardware or algorithms The main barrier to better brain emulation models is more and higher-quality experimental data. No organism's full brain has been recorded at single-neuron resolution. Small-organism brain emulation is within reach For organisms under 1 million neurons - fruit flies, small fish, bees - capturing all aspects of the brain faithfully is increasingly plausible, potentially within the decade, at a cost in the low $100Ms. Scale is an enormous challenge A mouse

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