Provenance record

Is There Anything Google’s Fruit Fly Brain Can’t Do?

The New York Times: Technology (tier 1, news) 2026-09-15T23:06:10.000Z Original ↗

Discourse valence

Mixed or uncertain

confidence 70% · 1 item

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Adverse readingFavourable reading

Single-model reading. This item did not meet the threshold for a multi-model panel.

AGI and timelines Compute and infrastructure Scaling and architecture

Excerpt as ingested

Models of the insect’s nervous system have been trained to solve a Rubik’s Cube, play video games and even parallel park a car.

Every model that read this

Model	Provider	Stage	Score	Conf.	Latency	Prompt	When
Llama 3.3 70B	Meta	analysis	0	70%	3272ms	v1.0.0 / m1.0.1	2026-09-16 00:17

Llama 3.3 70B · reading

Impressive AI capabilities, but unclear societal impact.

evidence: reported horizon: n/a

Evidence extracted

Google's fruit fly brain model can solve a Rubik's Cube
Google's fruit fly brain model can play video games
Google's fruit fly brain model can parallel park a car

The chain

SOURCE     The New York Times: Technology (tier 1)
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DOCUMENT   63bef619-ee76-41d1-910d-311bd5e26f9d
           https://nytimes.com/2026/09/15/technology/fruit-fly-brain-map-google.html
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EVIDENCE   3 extracted excerpts
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MODEL RUN  1 run, methodology 1.0.1
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SCORE      0  (Mixed or uncertain)
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CONFIDENCE 70%