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| July 23 2026 | Real-Time MindEye preprint released! The project demonstrates single-trial reconstruction of visual perception from fMRI within seconds. Paper |
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| June 8 2026 | MedARC launches nanopath, an open challenge for training and evaluating pathology foundation models in about one hour on one H100 GPU. Blog |
| May 28 2026 | CortexMAE accepted to ICML 2026! CortexMAE models and the open Brainmarks fMRI evaluation suite are released. Blog |
| May 12 2026 | Medmarks v1.0 released! The open medical LLM evaluation suite expands to 30 benchmarks and 61 models across 71 configurations. Blog |
| Apr 22 2026 | OpenAI cites Medmarks as a third-party medical evaluation in its ChatGPT for Clinicians announcement. OpenAI |
| Nov 14 2025 | OpenMidnight released! MedARC and Sophont publish an open pathology foundation model with its training pipeline, code, weights, demo, and technical report. Blog |
| Oct 15 2025 | fMRI foundation model project releases NeurIPS workshop preprint “Scaling Vision Transformers for Functional MRI with Flat Maps” |
| Sep 7 2025 | Benjamin Warner hired to lead our medical reasoning project! |
| Aug 11 2025 | MedARC wins 4th place in Algonauts challenge! Predicting brain response to natural movies. https://x.com/humanscotti/status/1954916346682376698 |
| July 10 2025 | Sophont is hiring for ML research scientists/engineers! https://sophontai.com |
| June 17 2025 | NY Times discusses our MindEye research! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/17/magazine/ai-human-analysis-face-diseases.html |
| June 7 2025 | CVPR poster acceptance + spotlight for NSD-Imagery! https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2025/poster/35026 |
| June 2 2025 | Connor Lane & Daniel Kaplan join Sophont as our first 2 employees! |
| Feb 2 2025 | Sophont is legally incorporated! Founded by Tanishq & Paul |
| Oct 27 2024 | Nature Communications paper published! “Trainees’ perspectives and recommendations for catalyzing the next generation of NeuroAI researchers”! |
| Sept 17 2024 | Media collaboration with Fujifilm Australia on reconstruction of mental imagery! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFrU-K_Az1A |
| May 2 2024 | MindEye2 paper accepted to ICML 2024! |
| Apr 17 2024 | The Cognitive Revolution podcast featuring Paul Scotti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_BS8tuUoZY |
| Apr 12 2024 | Stability AI blog post on MindEye2 https://stability.ai/news/mindeye2-fmri-to-image-with-1-hour-of-data |
| Sept 21 2023 | MindEye paper accepted as spotlight to NeurIPS 2023! https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/70292 |
| July 12 2023 | US Senate hearing discusses our work as example medical AI application https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023-07-12_pm_-*testimony*-_brooks.pdf |
| July 6 2023 | Stability AI blog post on MindEye https://stability.ai/research/minds-eye |
| May 29 2023 | MindEye preprint released! https://medarc-ai.github.io/mindeye |