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The Fly Brain Report
by Robert Scoble · X · published
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Fan of new things and the people who build them | San Francisco/Silicon Valley AI | Ex-Microsoft, Rackspace, Fast Company | Wrote eight books about the future.
The Fly Brain Report.
You've seen the flies all over your feed if you watch the AI community like I do.
Here's a good list my AI agent that I built with @blevlabs just made me. I asked it to find me any that have at least 10 likes or 10 reshares.
Here's the fly-brain report.
Quick context first: around Sep 3, 2026, Google Research + HHMI Janelia released MaleCNS v1.0 — the first complete connectome of an adult male fruit fly brain (~166,700 neurons, ~25.6M synapses; FlyWire earlier mapped ~140k). Within days, builders started wiring that simulated connectome into everything. These are the posts of "fly brains doing things" that clear at least 10 likes or 10 reshares.
THE ORIGINAL VIRAL DEMOS
• @lyraaaa — fly brain plays Beat Saber (84,912 likes, 2,316 quotes, 22M views) — x.com/lyraaaa/status…
• @alrightmark — fly brain drives a virtual Mini Cooper and uses the blinkers (16,791 likes) — x.com/alrightmark/st…
• @nicochristie — "I turned the fly bisexual" (blocked mAL output in a 166,606-neuron model) (9,506 likes) — x.com/nicochristie/s…
• @evnsnclr — fly brain running inside Minecraft (3,149 likes) — x.com/evnsnclr/statu…
• @fruitflydev — fly brain trained to launch a memecoin, real connectome (952 likes) — x.com/fruitflydev/st…
• @fruitflydev — the fly's memecoin earned $106k in creator rewards in 6.5 hrs (504 likes) — x.com/fruitflydev/st…
• @fruitflydev — real fly brain simulated forward with a learning mushroom body (216 likes) — x.com/fruitflydev/st…
"I GAVE THE FLY BRAIN A JOB" DEMOS
• @sopersone — FLYTOK: open-sourced fly brain given a phone to doomscroll (185 likes) — x.com/sopersone/stat…
• @sopersone — "born to fly, forced to scroll" phone demo (12 likes) — x.com/sopersone/stat…
• @RichardPtardio — set the fly brain to find him a wife (satire, 95 likes) — x.com/RichardPtardio…
• @kevincodex — fly brain in a microgecko robot, armed with lasers, fighting a drone swarm (59 likes) — x.com/kevincodex/sta…
• @anshuc — fly brain implant that "talks telepathically" via a modified LLM (53 likes) — x.com/anshuc/status/…
• @distributedkv — fly brain sim wired to a 1B-param LLM so you can chat with it (70 likes) — x.com/distributedkv/…
• @fruitflycap — FruitFly Capital: a swarm of simulated flies builds an on-chain portfolio (52 likes) — x.com/fruitflycap/st…
• @EvgenyKirilin — trained a fly brain to synthesize the anti-aging drug Rentosertib (50 likes) — your example — x.com/EvgenyKirilin/…
• @theSethian — fly brain flies a virtual racing drone through gates (32 likes) — x.com/theSethian/sta…
• @1f916ai — handed the fly to an autonomous agent society as a grant (17 likes) — x.com/1f916ai/status…
• @mitch0z — put the fly brain into a fly-body sim; watch it eat and fly live (15 likes) — x.com/mitch0z/status…
COVERAGE OF SPECIFIC DEMOS (also clears the bar)
• @thegreatestsv — a guy gave a fly's brain $100 to trade Bitcoin on dopamine reward (33 likes) — x.com/thegreatestsv/…
• @SciTechera — digital fly brain playing Doom and Super Mario 64 (21 likes) — x.com/SciTechera/sta…
• @AGTPinsights — the fly brain learns Beat Saber (17 likes) — x.com/AGTPinsights/s…
• @AGTPinsights — Alex Wormuth's DOOMFLY: fly brain plays Doom (12 likes, 9 quotes) — x.com/AGTPinsights/s…
• @AGTPinsights — full fly brain simulation inside Minecraft (12 likes) — x.com/AGTPinsights/s…
• @ForestManSol555 — "Fly64": fly brain plays Super Mario 64 (12 likes) — x.com/ForestManSol55…
• @gauravg1629 — fly brain played Doom, traded Bitcoin, and drove a hexapod robot this week (16 quotes) — x.com/gauravg1629/st…