{"id":14617,"date":"2025-08-30T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holistic.news\/en\/?p=14617"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:33:41","slug":"ai-that-thinks-like-a-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holistic.news\/en\/ai-that-thinks-like-a-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"A computer that thinks like a brain. The breakthrough that can change medicine and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Darwin Monkey – A Computer that Thinks like a Brain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On August 2, 2025, researchers from China unveiled a new-generation invention: Darwin Monkey. It’s a computer inspired by a monkey’s brain.<\/strong> It’s the world’s first neuromorphic hardware (mimicking the brain’s operation and structure). It is based on dedicated neuromorphic chips and equipped with over 2 billion neurons. This allows it to emulate the brain of a macaque, a monkey from the Old World family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darwin Monkey, also known as Wukong, was developed by the State Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence at Zhejiang University in eastern China. Its parameters are impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The chip system supports over 2 billion pulsing neurons and more than 100 billion synapses, making Darwin Monkey the world’s first brain-like computer<\/strong> that combines advanced cognitive abilities with vision, hearing, language, and learning. Under typical operating conditions, it consumes about 2,000 watts of power,”<\/em> according to English.news.cn<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The computer, inspired<\/a> by a monkey’s brain, dominates over others. It has 960 Darwin 3 neuromorphic computing chips\u2014the third generation of brain-inspired neural processors. This forms 15 brain-like servers in the form of so-called “blades.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A single chip simulates over 2.35 million artificial neurons, connecting them in hundreds of millions of ways. It also has special instructions that help it think similarly to a brain and learn in real time, just like we do.<\/strong> This gives it a wide range of applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Will the Monkey Brain-Inspired Computer Be Used For?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The superintelligent Darwin Monkey computer not only learns and thinks like a human but also has its own equivalents of senses: sight, hearing, and language skills.<\/strong> Thanks to its power, it can run a large, brain-like model for Deep Seek\u2014for in-depth information retrieval and processing, as well as problem-solving. It will contribute to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n