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Perforated AI Hackathon in San Francisco
Join us in San Francisco for our hackathon during Open Source Week, right after the PyTorch Conference. Build with dendritic intelligence and compete for $5,000+ in cash prizes!


This Team Is Rethinking AI's Core: Perforated AI Bets On Dendrites
For more than eighty years, deep learning has relied on a simplified model of brain function. Now, a Pittsburgh startup thinks the AI field is due for an update with dendrite-inspired neural networks.


Draper University: First Place in Silicon Valley Pitch Competition
Our founder Dr. Rorry Brenner took first place in Draper University's prestigious Heroes Program pitch competition, marking a pivotal milestone in our journey from science to product and opening doors to fundraising opportunities.


Exploring Perforated Backpropagation Through Further Experiments
Results from our Carnegie Mellon hackathon show up to 90% model compression without accuracy loss, or up to 16% increased accuracy on real-world ML projects.


Our First Hackathon: Revolutionary Neural Network Optimization Results
Results from our inaugural Neural Network Optimization Hackathon at Carnegie Mellon, showcasing dramatic improvements with 38x cost reduction and 158x speed improvements using Perforated Backpropagation.


Perforated Backpropagation: A Neuroscience Inspired Extension
Our groundbreaking research explores modifications to artificial neurons inspired by biological dendrites, achieving better performance and significant model compression without accuracy loss.


The Single Dendritic Branch as a Fundamental Functional Unit
Groundbreaking research challenging the conventional view of dendritic function, demonstrating that dendrites act as independent processing units performing local computations and controlling cellular processes like protein translation.
