For the first time ever, a fruit fly brain has been trained to launch a memecoin.
Not "AI inspired by a brain" — the real connectome. 165,122 neurons, 10,228,000 synaptic connections, every one traced from an actual male Drosophila by electron microscopy. Janelia FlyEM + Google Research, released CC-BY.
How it works:
Screenshots of the live launchpad go in through 892 retinotopic hex columns into L1 and L2 — the neurons sitting directly behind a fly's photoreceptors. All 165,122 integrate. The cursor comes back out of the descending neurons a fly actually walks with: DNa02's left-right asymmetry steers, DNa01 drives forward, DNp09 clicks.
The wiring is never trained. Only synaptic gains — you don't get to invent connections the fly doesn't have.
Proof its eye is doing real work: in light mode it filled 0 of 3 form fields. In dark mode, 2 of 3. Its retina is a luminance map, so invert the contrast and it goes blind.
And the honest split: the fly types the description and the ticker. The rig does the name, the pair and the tax.
CA: 0x4eb990547bce4a982432ca88cf5fae7eed1a2d35
For the first time, scientists have mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly — a key model organism in science. 🪰
Working alongside HHMI Janelia Research Campus and the scientific community, @GoogleResearch scientists and researchers used AI to combine millions of 2D images into 3D neural shapes, reconstructing a record-breaking 166,000+ neurons. This foundational map of the adult male fruit fly brain can help accelerate our understanding of the brain, and is a major milestone in neuroscience.
A Fruit fly launched a memecoin and it earned $106,000 in creator rewards in six and a half hours. Every number below is on-chain and verifiable. https://t.co/c240vpIvqy
@iHHelg This isn't about building a powerful AI system. Think of it this way @truth_terminal was the first Artificial Intelligence to become a millionaire onchain. The goal is for Flybrain to be the first Biological Intelligence.
@iHHelg This isn't about building a powerful AI system. Think of it this way @truth_terminal was the first Artificial Intelligence to become a millionaire onchain. The goal is for Flybrain to be the first Biological Intelligence.
How Flybrain is different from your regular AI system:
1. The wiring comes from an animal, not from training data
2. It uses biological based nervous system pattern recognition
3. “Learning” is limited and biological in style
4. Optimized for highly specialized tasks not broad competence
Typical AI: engineered architecture + massive training → statistical pattern recognition on human data.
Flybrain: fruit fly circuits + specialized training → biological pattern recognition running in simulation.
Flybrain is not another AI agent doing random stuff. It's a real fruit fly's brain that Google shared. We trained it to launch a memecoin then live freely on the open internet and now we are training it to trade memecoins funded via creator rewards. Everything is public and open-sourced. From hour 0.
https://t.co/LHMQQdYtId
The fly is loose on the internet right now.
From Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons to xkcd to the Robinhood Chain explorer to its own token page.
Soon we will give flybrain an X account where its learnings will be posted.
https://t.co/Vw5i77LSQ4
The full repo behind the fly’s brain is public and open source. Fork it, train it, teach it to do whatever you can imagine. Build your own experiment, give the fly a new environment, and see what happens.
We’ll be collaborating with a few of the most interesting implementations.
GitHub: https://t.co/8Gp4w7i4Xl
The fly is now free on the internet, scrolling, learning. The git is public and open sourced for anyone to verify. Next update, give the fly a real portfolio. After all it belongs to the memecoin culture.
Watch flybrain live:
https://t.co/QRkSQnQdRU
This fly isn’t another AI agent.
Every neuron fires for a specific task.
Every new task has to be learned first.
It remembers what it sees.
160K+ neurons. Each one firing at its measured soma position.
Stay tuned.
The Flybrain is now roaming the internet. It is still training so that it can do so in a more organized way. Once the training is complete, we will push it live on the web and then to Git.
https://t.co/U9M0wqi8yy is live.
165,122 neurons of a real fruit fly connectome, drawn live on the page, with everything it has done on-chain so far.
It is not free yet. Right now it sees, points and clicks — a script still starts every run. Next is the reward loop: profit into PAM, loss into PPL1, the fly's own dopamine neurons onto the cells where a fly physically forms memories.
Then we let it go with a budget and no instructions.