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Ok so reality. What another crap week being a BRN share holder with our share price dropping so much over the last 5 days we could all have retired weeks ago. Have a really crap weekend everyone
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Ok so reality. What another crap week being a BRN share holder with our share price dropping so much over the last 5 days we could all have retired weeks ago. Have a really crap weekend everyone
Sounds pessimistic… but real! And… I can read some positive aspects between the lines…. Keep it up like this bro…
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Thanks @Diogenese for indulging me. You always add value to the subject…. and I knew you’d be all over it!
It’ll be handy to have Qualcomm provide a mass market revenue stream for us!
Cheers !
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Found a brand new University of Sydney PhD thesis, which is highly likely related to the GitHub “Akida Seizure” repository that one of the two thesis supervisors, Omid Kavehei, had set up under the GitHub name NeuroSyd just over two months ago (which seems to have disappeared since or has possibly been renamed?), spotted by @Fullmoonfever at the time.
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University of Sydney PhD candidate Andre Zainal, who has a B.Eng. (Biomedical) & B.MedSci background, embarked on his Research PhD in Biomedical Engineering just a week ago, “researching AI-driven neuromorphic hardware for early seizure detection”.
The title of his thesis is “Optimizing Training Algorithms for Neuromorphic Hardware: Enhancing In-Memory Computing with FPGA and Akida Neural Processors for Epileptic Seizure Detection”.
Akida doesn’t have “in-memory-computing”, though?
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Andre Zainal’s first PhD supervisor Omid Kavehei has been conducting epilepsy research for years:
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More on Andre Zainal’s two PhD supervisors:
Principal supervisor Omid Kavehei is not only Professor at University of Sydney’s School of Biomedical Engineering, but also Director and Founder of BrainConnect (https://brainconnect.com.au/), the stealth startup “developing novel solutions in long-term interfacing with the brain and body”, where co-supervisor Duy Nhan Truong works as Engineering Lead.
Prior to filling that position, Duy Nhan Truong also used to be at University of Sydney, initially as a PhD student in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (transferred from RMIT University in 2018, PhD thesis completed in 2020, titled “Epileptic Seizure Detection and Forecasting Ecosystems”, principal supervisor: Omid Kavehei; https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/21932/truong_nd_thesis.pdf?) and later as a postdoc.
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New paper published today from the Sydney researchers around Omar Kavehei on epileptic seizure detection and prediction using Akida.
The paper’s first author is Luis Fernando Herbozo Contreras, who according to his LinkedIn profile graduated from University of Sydney with a PhD in Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering in August (but for some reason hasn’t yet updated his self-description, which still reads “PhD candidate”).
The title of his PhD thesis is “Bio-inspired Algorithms for Low-Power Seizure Detection: Towards Neuromorphic Neuromodulation AI”.
So here we’ve got yet another (former) PhD student supervised by Omar Kavehei who has evaluated Akida for epileptic seizure detection. See my above post about Andre Zainal, who started his PhD in July - the title of his thesis even contains Akida by name!
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While the Sydney researchers seemed overall happy with Akida’s performance, they also addressed certain limitations of BrainChip’s first generation of neuromorphic hardware and concluded by saying:
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This work demonstrates the effectiveness of a novel framework for seizure detection and prediction directly on the edge, enabling learning with lower computational com- plexity, reduced energy consumption, and in an unsupervised manner while processing streaming data. Looking ahead, if the long-term vision is neuromorphic neuromodulation, this framework establishes a strong foundation toward that goal. Future work will focus on designing architectures capable of better capturing temporal and spatial dependencies, as shown in recent studies [23], thereby achieving higher performance without increasing memory or computational requirements. Overall, these results pave the way for the next generation of AI-driven electroceuticals.”
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Reference 23 is another publication by the same authors plus PhD candidate Isabelle Aguilar:
Maybe the option of now being able to access Akida 2.0 via the cloud will make them reconsider?
Anyway, yet another validation of Akida (and neuromorphic technology in general) for important future use cases in biomedical engineering.
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I see Rudy also posted some info around Pleiades and Centaurus a week ago.
www.linkedin.com
Rudy Pei
Inference @ NVIDIA | quantum + neuromorphic computing | music
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Happy to share PLEIADES just got a stamp of approval from Neurips 2025! Congratz and thanks to my coauthor Olivier Coenen for making this happen. Pleiades is a sister network to Centaurus. Very briefly put, while Centaurus is a new-age SSM, Pleiades is a new-age CNN. The shared basis of both are orthogonal polynomials basis, which has a long history in math and physics (think Sturm-Louisville). Just to recall, Pleiades achieved 100 percent test accuracy of the DVS 128 dataset, and SOTA performance on event-based road scene detection (still SOTA 3 years after we got the initial result!) This is very timely, as now CNNs and SSMs are making a huge comeback in the form of hybrid LLMs. For instance, LFM2 from Liquid AI uses conv layers, and a variant of Qwen3-Next uses gated delta net (again a new-age SSM). So the general sentiment seems to be "while transformers can be all you need, CNNs and SSMs definitely help". I am very fortunate enough to be able to contribute to this space in an "orthogonal" direction Arxiv link https://lnkd.in/gcGT6QHU
Happy to share PLEIADES just got a stamp of approval from Neurips 2025! Congratz and thanks to my coauthor Olivier Coenen for making this happen. Pleiades is a sister network to Centaurus. Very… | Rudy Pei
Happy to share PLEIADES just got a stamp of approval from Neurips 2025! Congratz and thanks to my coauthor Olivier Coenen for making this happen. Pleiades is a sister network to Centaurus. Very briefly put, while Centaurus is a new-age SSM, Pleiades is a new-age CNN. The shared basis of both...
Rudy Pei
Inference @ NVIDIA | quantum + neuromorphic computing | music
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Happy to share PLEIADES just got a stamp of approval from Neurips 2025! Congratz and thanks to my coauthor Olivier Coenen for making this happen. Pleiades is a sister network to Centaurus. Very briefly put, while Centaurus is a new-age SSM, Pleiades is a new-age CNN. The shared basis of both are orthogonal polynomials basis, which has a long history in math and physics (think Sturm-Louisville). Just to recall, Pleiades achieved 100 percent test accuracy of the DVS 128 dataset, and SOTA performance on event-based road scene detection (still SOTA 3 years after we got the initial result!) This is very timely, as now CNNs and SSMs are making a huge comeback in the form of hybrid LLMs. For instance, LFM2 from Liquid AI uses conv layers, and a variant of Qwen3-Next uses gated delta net (again a new-age SSM). So the general sentiment seems to be "while transformers can be all you need, CNNs and SSMs definitely help". I am very fortunate enough to be able to contribute to this space in an "orthogonal" direction Arxiv link https://lnkd.in/gcGT6QHU
Sorry I thought I was answering your question…
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Interestingly chat boxes are more human like than we think after all everything they access is originates from us warts and all. The warts being out of date or incorrect information.Seriously? Did you even use a proper search engine (if yes, which one?) or merely consult ChatGPT to help you source the original source?
(The LLM may obviously have had a “motive” to deflect from the MIT researchers’ findings and hence may have falsely claimed no such study existed…)
While the authors of the pre-print published in June 2025 wouldn’t fully agree with the (presumably) AI-generated and in part unfactual* “summary” of their study that @Brainshit’s screenshot shows, the study as such is very real. The paper is titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task” and can easily be found online by googling “MIT study ChatGPT”:
*In the project website’s FAQ section, they distance themselves from sensationalist and too general interpretations of their study (which they freely admit has certain limitations) and from inaccurate terms such as “brain-scans”.
Also, the “83.3 %” refer to the following sentence: “Quoting accuracy was significantly different across experimental conditions (Figure 6). In the LLM‐assisted group, 83.3 % of participants (15/18) failed to provide a correct quotation, whereas only 11.1 % (2/18) in both the Search‐Engine and Brain‐Only groups encountered the same difficulty.”
Pre-print: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
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LinkedIn post by first author Nataliya Kosmyna:
How ChatGPT affects your brain and writing | Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D posted on the topic | LinkedIn
𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞. See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" (link in the comments). For 4 months, 54 students were divided into three groups...
You can also find numerous video interviews with Nataliya Kosmyna online, in which she explains what the study was actually about and what it doesn’t show.
Just like us Chat boxes cherry pick information to suit.
Just like some people chat boxes sometimes just 'make things up' but sound convincing. 'Hallucinations'?
They get some things right and some things wrong - just like us.
Despite us having foremen, leading hands, supervisors, managers, auditors, peer reviews etc we still stuff up. So i expect it will be a while before we get a near perfect chat box record.
Reducing error occurrence probably comes down to us managing chat box short comings as best we can and checking results.
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Jim McGregor, the founder and principal analyst of Tirias Research, is a familiar name to BRN shareholders. He was a guest on one of the 2024 CES “All Things AI” podcasts, and it was him who interviewed Todd Vierra at that same event, when our VP of Customer Engagement famously replied the following to Jim McGregor’s comment “And correct me if I’m wrong, but this is the Akida 2?”
Todd: “This is actually all ran [sic] on Akida 1 hardware. Akida 2, erm - we are in the process of taping out and we’ll get that silicon back a little bit later, but these are all just Gen 1...” (from 9:26 min).
We still don’t know why he said that, by the way.
In an interview session recorded on 1 August, Jim McGregor and Martin Olsen from Vertiv chat about “The AI data center of the future: Where are we headed?”
And neuromorphic chips get a mention, too…
www.linkedin.com
However, that episode is only streamable with a (free) DCD account…
Does anyone happen to have one and could share with us what exactly was said about neuromorphic chips and how they could help to “reshape data center design” and whether Akida got a mention?
Todd: “This is actually all ran [sic] on Akida 1 hardware. Akida 2, erm - we are in the process of taping out and we’ll get that silicon back a little bit later, but these are all just Gen 1...” (from 9:26 min).
We still don’t know why he said that, by the way.
In an interview session recorded on 1 August, Jim McGregor and Martin Olsen from Vertiv chat about “The AI data center of the future: Where are we headed?”
And neuromorphic chips get a mention, too…
The next decade won’t just be about scaling bigger data centers — it will redefine how we design, power, and operate them. In our on-demand episode from AI Week, Martin Olsen from Vertiv and Jim… | DatacenterDynamics
The next decade won’t just be about scaling bigger data centers — it will redefine how we design, power, and operate them. In our on-demand episode from AI Week, Martin Olsen from Vertiv and Jim McGregor from TIRIAS Research explore what's next for AI infrastructure. Stream the episode now as...
However, that episode is only streamable with a (free) DCD account…
Does anyone happen to have one and could share with us what exactly was said about neuromorphic chips and how they could help to “reshape data center design” and whether Akida got a mention?
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Shocking and sad news: Olivier Coenen’s contract was terminated today… 
www.linkedin.com
His post supports my suspicion that something is amiss with our company’s work culture. There have been plenty of signs on LinkedIn over the past 18 months or so, some of which I addressed in earlier posts.
Like a few other forum members, I also found it concerning when Olivier Coenen posted the following after Rudy Pei had left our company, as to me this was definitely to be read as criticism of management:
www.linkedin.com
The event-camera hand image even looked as if the author were waving goodbye.
So I was very relieved when Olivier Coenen stayed on and when I later discovered on LinkedIn that he actually served as the PI for the AFRL project.
Which makes it all the more shocking to me that he actually got fired while this project is still running!
#hiring #opentowork #neuralnetworks #ssm #eventbased #airesearch | Olivier Coenen
After two intense weeks (14–19-hour days) and enough material for ~3 more patent filings, I got the call: I was let go from BrainChip today. What I’m proud of: material for 20+ patents, co-developing PLEIADES (accepted at NeurIPS this year), and co-inventing TENN (Temporal Event Neural...
His post supports my suspicion that something is amiss with our company’s work culture. There have been plenty of signs on LinkedIn over the past 18 months or so, some of which I addressed in earlier posts.
Like a few other forum members, I also found it concerning when Olivier Coenen posted the following after Rudy Pei had left our company, as to me this was definitely to be read as criticism of management:
Why talent and expertise are crucial for innovation | Olivier Coenen posted on the topic | LinkedIn
On the Importance of Talent and Expertise in Innovation When developing pioneering technologies, intellectual property (IP) often appears as a clear path toward innovation and competitive advantage. At my previous startup, Qelzal Corporation, our VC investors recognized the potential of our...
The event-camera hand image even looked as if the author were waving goodbye.
So I was very relieved when Olivier Coenen stayed on and when I later discovered on LinkedIn that he actually served as the PI for the AFRL project.
Which makes it all the more shocking to me that he actually got fired while this project is still running!
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Shocking and sad news: Olivier Coenen’s contract was terminated today…
His post supports my suspicion that something is amiss with our company’s work culture. There have been plenty of signs on LinkedIn over the past 18 months or so.
#hiring #opentowork #neuralnetworks #ssm #eventbased #airesearch | Olivier Coenen
After two intense weeks (14–19-hour days) and enough material for ~3 more patent filings, I got the call: I was let go from BrainChip today. What I’m proud of: material for 20+ patents, co-developing PLEIADES (accepted at NeurIPS this year), and co-inventing TENN (Temporal Event Neural...
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There was a lot of staff turnover in the last 12 months... a bit too much, in my opinion.
Hi Fmf,I see Rudy also posted some info around Pleiades and Centaurus a week ago.
Happy to share PLEIADES just got a stamp of approval from Neurips 2025! Congratz and thanks to my coauthor Olivier Coenen for making this happen. Pleiades is a sister network to Centaurus. Very… | Rudy Pei
Happy to share PLEIADES just got a stamp of approval from Neurips 2025! Congratz and thanks to my coauthor Olivier Coenen for making this happen. Pleiades is a sister network to Centaurus. Very briefly put, while Centaurus is a new-age SSM, Pleiades is a new-age CNN. The shared basis of both...
Rudy Pei
Inference @ NVIDIA | quantum + neuromorphic computing | music
1w Edited
Happy to share PLEIADES just got a stamp of approval from Neurips 2025! Congratz and thanks to my coauthor Olivier Coenen for making this happen. Pleiades is a sister network to Centaurus. Very briefly put, while Centaurus is a new-age SSM, Pleiades is a new-age CNN. The shared basis of both are orthogonal polynomials basis, which has a long history in math and physics (think Sturm-Louisville). Just to recall, Pleiades achieved 100 percent test accuracy of the DVS 128 dataset, and SOTA performance on event-based road scene detection (still SOTA 3 years after we got the initial result!) This is very timely, as now CNNs and SSMs are making a huge comeback in the form of hybrid LLMs. For instance, LFM2 from Liquid AI uses conv layers, and a variant of Qwen3-Next uses gated delta net (again a new-age SSM). So the general sentiment seems to be "while transformers can be all you need, CNNs and SSMs definitely help". I am very fortunate enough to be able to contribute to this space in an "orthogonal" direction Arxiv link https://lnkd.in/gcGT6QHU
Rudy is the author of this Centaurus paper, nominating BRN as employer:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.13230
Olivier Coenen is "open for work"!!!!!!!!!
WTH!
... well that was unexpected!
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Shocking and sad news: Olivier Coenen’s contract was terminated today…
#hiring #opentowork #neuralnetworks #ssm #eventbased #airesearch | Olivier Coenen
After two intense weeks (14–19-hour days) and enough material for ~3 more patent filings, I got the call: I was let go from BrainChip today. What I’m proud of: material for 20+ patents, co-developing PLEIADES (accepted at NeurIPS this year), and co-inventing TENN (Temporal Event Neural...
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His post supports my suspicion that something is amiss with our company’s work culture. There have been plenty of signs on LinkedIn over the past 18 months or so, some of which I addressed in earlier posts.
Like a few other forum members, I also found it concerning when Olivier Coenen posted the following after Rudy Pei had left our company, as to me this was definitely to be read as criticism of management:
Why talent and expertise are crucial for innovation | Olivier Coenen posted on the topic | LinkedIn
On the Importance of Talent and Expertise in Innovation When developing pioneering technologies, intellectual property (IP) often appears as a clear path toward innovation and competitive advantage. At my previous startup, Qelzal Corporation, our VC investors recognized the potential of our...
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The event-camera hand image even looked as if the author were waving goodbye.
So I was very relieved when Olivier Coenen stayed on and when I later discovered on LinkedIn that he actually served as the PI for the AFRL project.
Which makes it all the more shocking to me that he actually got fired while this project is still running!
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We do not know why they are letting him go!
We are immediately judging the company, but maybe it is also he who made a major mistake?
He had access to a lot of internal and technical information and secrets, so everything is possible. Or did he have a major fight with Sean and was disrespectful? He clearly said it: THEY are letting him go! There must be a reason for this.
Btw, he knew something like this was coming because he announced it yesterday already. So it was no surprise to him, so I see the problem on his side.
If it is not his fault, whose is it? We will never know. Nobody will tell us.
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Indeed.
In fact, last night I actually drew up a list of people who have left our company over the past 18 months or so - many of them in senior positions - as I was going to reply to @manny100’s question…
…in reaction to my earlier statement “But joking aside, from my perspective our company evidently has a problem with retaining staff - and I personally don’t think the lure of a bigger pay package somewhere else is the main reason for the high staff turnover.”
The context was sharing the news that both Richard Resseguie and Richard Chevalier had recently left our company, shortly after we had also lost our VP of Global Sales Steve Thorne…
Below you will find my list, which is likely not complete.
It doesn’t include our retired founders nor the staff based in Australia that were let go because the Perth office closed down nor those that left our company to pursue a PhD (like FNU Sidharth).
For the most part, we can of course only speculate why they left or were let go, as we are not privy to the former staff members’ / management’s reasons, but quite a few hints on LinkedIn have suggested to me over the past 1.5 years there must have been dissatisfaction with leadership and/or work culture on the side of several employees.
While it may not always be the company’s fault, why employees leave or get their contracts terminated, a revolving door of talent is usually a concerning indicator that something is wrong, especially when employees leave a company that is supposedly on the cusp of greatness. Why would anyone leave such an employer despite a commercial breakthrough in sight?!
What comes to mind other than a big fat pay cheque growing on greener pastures is either frustration because from the inside they can see the breakthrough is not nearly as close as management keeps on suggesting to the outside world or possibly something like a toxic work culture that breeds dissatisfaction.
Yes, of course there are also many other reasons why someone might opt for a change that have nothing at all to do with the company as such. However, just have a look at the sheer number of people who - for whatever reason - are no longer BrainChip employees:
Rob Telson
Nandan Nayampally
Chris Jones
Sheila Sabanal-Lau
Nikunj Kotecha [Edit: He already left BrainChip in or at the end of November 2023]
Anup Vanarse
Rudy Pei
Thao Tran
Daniel Keller
Nezar Lheimeur
Sébastien Crouzet
Richard Bohl
Ruth Nguyen
Edward Lien
Steve Thorne
Richard Resseguie
Richard Chevalier
Olivier Coenen
Staff still employed but “Open to Work”:
Bajana sai chaithanya varma
Fares Ernez
Rohan Shingre (intern only) [Edit: His 9 month internship already ended back in March, and he has been “Open To Work” since. I should rather have grouped him with the other names in the longer list above.]
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Then there was also Steve Brightfield’s puzzling comment “I’m interested” under a job offer in a February LinkedIn post by a former Qualcomm colleague, Ramesh Chandrasekhar, who has founded a startup called Aynak Inc (“We’re building the next generation of smart eyewear that discreetly enhances hearing while delivering premium style and comfort… without the stigma of traditional hearing aids”). Maybe it just didn’t work out?
Now BrainChip is advertising the position of a Senior Digital Design Engineer.
Will Kenneth Wu be the next ex-BrainChip employee?
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I agree. We can speculate all we want.
You should send this to the New York Times. If you push hard enough to get your message out you could generate enough doubt to really spook investors. We love a low share price.
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His previous post makes no sense at all in connection with the current one. The first post was clearly referring to a breakthrough in their work – and that’s how many understood it, judging by the reactions. The fact that Anil even congratulated him only reinforced that impression.
And then in the very next post suddenly the U-turn with “I was let go from Brainchip.” Honestly – you don’t do that. If nothing comes out tomorrow regarding any Brainchip progress, I’d consider it rather negative on his part. To me it looks very unprofessional. I find this approach highly questionable.
Just my opinion.
And then in the very next post suddenly the U-turn with “I was let go from Brainchip.” Honestly – you don’t do that. If nothing comes out tomorrow regarding any Brainchip progress, I’d consider it rather negative on his part. To me it looks very unprofessional. I find this approach highly questionable.
Just my opinion.
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Getting rid off staff for the takeover
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