The 'brain-inspired' community has always been doing this, since Carver Mead introduced the term 'neuromorphic' in the late 1980s. Reselling banalities as a new great insight. My favourite is "Neuromorphic computing breakthrough could enable blockchain on Mars" [1]. What else can they do? After all, that community has now multiple decades of failure under it's belt. Not a single success. Failure to make progress in AI and failure to say anything of interest about the brain. To paraphrase a US president: In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and neuromphicists exaggerating. (Aside: I was told by someone who applied to YC with a 'neuromorphic' startup that YC said, they don't fund 'neuromorphic'. I am not sure about details ...). The whole 'brain talk' malarkey goes back way longer. In particular psychology and related subjects, since their origins as a specialty in the 19th century, have heavily used brain-inspired metaphors that were intended to mislead. Already in the 19th century that was criticised. See [3] for an interesting discussion.

There is something interesting in this post, namely that it's based on non-Nvidia GPUs, in this case MetaX [2]. I don't know how competitive MetaX are today, but I would not bet against China in the longer term.

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/neuromorphic-computing-breakt...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaX

[3] K. S. Kendler, A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-025-03053-6

> I was told by someone who applied to YC with a 'neuromorphic' startup that YC said, they don't fund 'neuromorphic'.

There is something refreshingly consistent in a VC that is laser focused on enterprise CRM dashboard for dashboards workflow optimization ChatGPT wrappers that also filters out the neuromorphicists.

Reminds me of how the Samurai were so used to ritual dueling and reading their lineages before battle but when the Mongolians encountered them they just shot the samurai mid-speech.

This is 100% true. It's just very effective and profitable PR. There IS a minority stream in the field that uses the branding to get funding and then builds real tech. But you'll never know it as neuromorphic as the label comes off once it works. Look up Synaptics (touch pad) history.