The Thousand Brains Project is developing a foundational framework for the future of artificial intelligence, inspired by the structure and function of the neocortex. By releasing all of our software and ongoing research as open source under the MIT license, we enable anyone to freely use, modify, and build upon this work—whether for research, education, or commercial purposes.

The first implementation of this project “Monty”, in reference to Vernon Mountcastle, who proposed the columnar organization of the mammalian neocortex, is one specific instantiation of the Thousand Brains Theory. In the future, there may be other implementations.

The ultimate aim is to enable developers to build AI applications that are more intelligent, more flexible, and more capable than those built using traditional deep learning methods. Monty is our first step towards this goal and represents an open-source, sensorimotor learning framework.