CHINESE AI RESEARCHERS JUST PUT A MONKEY'S BRAIN ON A COMPUTER

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Chinese researchers claim to have created an AI version of a monkey's brain. Project Darwin Monkey is the largest brain-like computer in the world, with 960 chips, each supporting over 2 billion spiking neurons and over 100 billion synapses, approaching the number of neurons in a macaque brain. Darwin Monkey uses DeepSeek's AI model for intelligent tasks such as logical reasoning, content generation, and mathematical problem solving. It has a custom operating system that uses concurrent scheduling of neuromorphic tasks and dynamic optimization of system resources for more efficiency.