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Allen Institute for Brain Science

Allen Institute for Brain Science

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Racing toward the digital brain

New Capabilities

Pursuing whole-brain modeling using detailed biological data

Scientists at Germany's Jülich Research Centre demonstrated in mid-January 2026 that Europe's most powerful supercomputer can simulate 20 billion spiking neurons—matching the scale of the human cerebral cortex. The team plans to combine this capability with anatomical brain data to run full-cortex simulations, a technical milestone that has eluded researchers since the field's founding in the 1980s.

Updated Jan 31