The Cognitive Revolution · Saturday, July 4, 2026
Liquid AI's foundational research into neural networks was inspired by studying the nervous system of a specific worm, which, with only 300 cells, exhibits complex sensory reactive behavior. Ramin Hassani noted that this biological model offered a more manageable starting point for applying learning theory to systems with far fewer neurons than traditional artificial networks.
“So naturally the place that we started looking into was brains, you know, we started looking into animal brains, you know, and and we started looking into how neurons exchange information with each other, you know?”
“We started looking into brain of worms, you know, small animals.”
“And, and why worms this this specific worm, its elegance, you start working on the brain of the worm. The reason behind it is that it was the only animal that in 2015, when I started this type of research, with my co-founder, Matthias Lechner, we, um, this was the only animal that we knew the entire nervous system as a whole and this animal exhibits massive amount of kind of sensory reactive behavior like amazing levels of control that with 300 cells in its nervous system, you know?”