How China's new ‘Darwin Monkey' could shake up future of AI in world first
The neuron count of the 'Darwin Monkey' approaches that of a macaque and could be used to advance
human brain-inspired artificial intelligence (AI), according to its developers at Zhejiang University.
The Darwin Monkey is the latest generation of brain-inspired computers produced by Zhejiang University researchers.
'This is the world's first brain-like computer based on a dedicated neuromorphic chip with more than 2 billion neurons,' the university said on its social media account on Saturday.
The computing system, made up of 960 Darwin 3 brain-inspired computing chips creating over 100 billion synapses, is 'a step closer to achieving more advanced brain-like intelligence', it said in the post.
The Darwin Monkey has been successfully deployed to complete tasks like content generation, logical reasoning and mathematics, using the groundbreaking Chinese AI company DeepSeek's brain-like large model.
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