Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain's 'Core Algorithm' (wired.com) AI

WIRED reports that Jeff Bezos is funding Flourish, a neuro-AI startup pursuing an “AI brain” designed to match human learning efficiency and run on roughly 50 watts or less, using wet-lab neuroscience experiments—particularly around cortical columns—to uncover the brain’s underlying “core algorithm,” with $500 million in funding and additional investments from Lux Capital and Google Ventures.