This was not on Jane Goodall’s bingo card. With 2 billion neurons, researchers say the DeepSeek-powered Darwin Monkey is a major step toward ‘brain-like intelligence.’
We’re already getting glimpses of AI technology that goes far beyond chatbots to model the brains of living beings.
Chinese researchers say they created an AI version of a monkey’s brain, and put it on a computer. It has 960 chips, and each one “supports over 2 billion spiking neurons and over 100 billion synapses, approaching the number of neurons in a macaque brain,” according to Zhejiang University, as translated by Google.
Researchers named the project the Darwin Monkey and say it’s “a step toward more advanced brain-like intelligence.” It’s the largest brain-like, or “neuromorphic,” computer in the world, and the first that’s based on neuromorphic-specific chips, Interesting Engineering reports. — Read More
Daily Archives: August 11, 2025
OpenAI launches GPT-5 free to all ChatGPT users
On Thursday, OpenAI announced GPT-5 and three variants—GPT-5 Pro, GPT-5 mini, and GPT-5 nano—what the company calls its “best AI system yet,” with availability for some of the models across all ChatGPT tiers, including free users. The new model family arrives with claims of reduced confabulations, improved coding capabilities, and a new approach to handling sensitive requests that OpenAI calls “safe completions.”
It’s also the first time OpenAI has given free users access to a simulated reasoning AI model, which breaks problems down into multiple steps using a technique that tends to improve answer accuracy for logical or analytical questions. — Read More
Leaning into AI, ML, and observability to manage your ever-growing infrastructure
The complexity and scale of modern infrastructure requires an equally intelligent set of observability tools to effectively monitor it.
Remember when scaling meant ordering new servers and racking them in a data center? Remember when cloud providers first offered access to seemingly infinite virtual machines at the click of a button? Remember when Kubernetes made it trivial for infrastructure to automatically scale itself based on demand? Artificial intelligence (AI) is now fostering faster software development and more intelligent orchestration, once again exponentially increasing the scale of IT infrastructure.
Welcome to the brave new world of modern observability and infrastructure! If you’re feeling like the ground is shifting beneath your feet as an SRE or IT Operations professional, you’re not alone. The way we build and run systems has undergone a dramatic transformation, and the tools we use to observe these systems need modernization to keep up. This isn’t just an evolution; it’s an “everything changed” moment. — Read More
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