Sakana AIFeatured5 min read
Biologically Plausible Learning
The MNIST-to-CIFAR flip that exposed a blind spot in brain-like AI research
Sakana AI scaled a backprop-free, Dale-compliant architecture past MNIST for the first time. The catch: which trick matters most reverses between datasets, a warning about how biologically plausible AI is measured.
2026-07-22