Why Contribute?

We are excited about all contributors and there may be a wide range of motivations you may have for contributing. Here is a (non exhaustive) list of what those reasons might be and benefits you may have from contributing.

• You are tired of incremental progress on ANN benchmarks.
• You don't believe that LLMs are the path to true machine intelligence/understanding the brain.
• You want to do exciting research but don't have a big compute budget.
• You are looking for a wide open space to explore new ideas.
• You want to solve tasks where little training data is available.
• You want to solve sensorimotor tasks.
• You want to solve a task that requires quick, continuous learning and adaptation.
• You want to better understand the brain and principles underlying our intelligence.
• You want to work on the future of AI.
• You want to be part of a truely unique and special project.

Here is a list of concrete output you may get out of working on this project.

• Write a publication.
• Write your bachelor or master thesis on the thousand brains approach.
• Be part of an awesome community.
• Have your project showcased on our showcase page.
• Have your paper listed on our TBP based papers page.
• Become a code contributor.
• Lastly, for those out there who love achievements, note that when an RFC you have made is merged and active, you can get a player icon of your choice on our project roadmap. Maybe we'll see you there soon? 🎯

As we are putting this code under an MIT license and related patents under a non-assert pledge, people can also build commercial applications on this framework. However, the current code is very much research code and not an out-of-the-box solution so it will require significant engineering effort to tailor it to your application.