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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
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