Brain simulator AI platform processes 3 billion synapses/s

The company's Brain Simulator II is an open-source software platform for proving the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) to artificial general intelligence (AGI). In what the company says is a significant advance in the development of AGI, the system - comprising an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X CPU running at 2.9 GHz (not overclocked) and 128 Gigabytes of RAM - processed three billion synapses per second. Seen as another step toward creating brain-level functionality on computers, the spiking neural models used by the Brain Simulator II, says the company, are more like biological neurons than traditional AI models and contribute immensely to the efficiency of the program. Energy analysis of the the higher-level thinking part of the brain - the neocortex - shows that neurons spike on average, only once every six seconds - meaning that its 16 billion neurons generate only 2.5 billion spikes per second in total. The Brain Simulator's spiking neural model, says the company, only processes neurons that spike in a specific time interval, rather than processing all of them, and so can be thousands of times faster than traditional artificial neural networks.