image: At the 2025 World Economic Forum, Henry Markram presented a five-step recipe for building digital brains: populate them with neurons, grow dendrites, grow axons, form synapses, and model the electrochemical behavior of each neuronal and synaptic type—then “switch on” these networks to iteratively refine their biological fidelity. He further explained how teaching these digital brains can revolutionize AI by mirroring the brain’s own adaptive capabilities, opening the door to a future where generalizable AI arises from genuine causal understanding rather than mere correlation-based methods.
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Zürich/Lausanne, Switzerland – 18 March 2025 – inait today announced a collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate the development and commercialization of inait’s innovative AI technology, using its unique digital brain AI platform. The collaboration will focus on joint product development, go-to-market strategies, and co-selling initiatives, initially targeting the finance and robotics sectors.
inait's AI technology, born from decades of neuroscience research offers a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence. Its “brain programming language” and ability to learn from experience and understand cause and effect delivers cognitive abilities for real-world interactions towards adaptive general intelligence, overcoming the limitations of current AI systems.
“This collaboration with Microsoft marks a pivotal moment for inait,” said Henry Markram, Founder and Chairman of inait. “After two decades of R&D we now have digital brain replicas and the know-how to teach them to perform AI. Microsoft’s global ecosystem is ideal to globally scale our disruptive digital brain-based AI.”
“Together with Microsoft, we aim to deploy our existing AI solutions and co-develop transformative industry solutions going forward,” stated Richard Frey, CEO of inait.
“inait is pioneering a new AI paradigm—moving beyond traditional data-based models to digital brains capable of true cognition. Their AI models mirror biological intelligence in a highly efficient manner, becoming a leading contender in the new reasoning-driven AI era.” said Adir Ron, EMEA Cloud & AI Director for Startups and Digital Natives Microsoft.
“We believe that inait’s approach to AI has the potential to bring significant value to the industry,” said Catrin Hinkel, CEO Microsoft Switzerland. “Their neuroscience-inspired technology is truly innovative, and we are pleased to collaborate with them to bring these advancements to market, starting with the fintech and robotics sectors where we see opportunities for immediate transformation.”
The collaboration will use the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and its global reach to accelerate the deployment of inait’s AI solutions. In the financial sector, the collaboration will focus on delivering advanced trading algorithms, risk management tools, and personalized financial advice. In robotics, the focus will be on developing more intelligent and adaptable robots for industrial manufacturing capable of performing in complex and dynamic environments.
About inait
inait (www.inait.ai) is a Swiss-based AI innovator developing the next generation of artificial intelligence based on digital brain technology. Founded by neuroscientist Henry Markram and with the Open Brain Institute (www.openbraininstitute.org) as its strategic partner for access to digital brains, inait is pioneering a paradigm shift in AI, delivering adaptive generalizable intelligence for applications across industries.
Press Contact: Richard Frey (CEO), press@inait.ai