San Francisco-based Eon Systems, a tech company that claims to be working towards "digital human intelligence," has made a claim that it is working towards building a full digital emulation of a mouse brain within two years. The company's founder, Alexander Wissner-Gross, described the footage as the "world’s first embodiment of a whole-brain emulation that produces multiple behaviors" and hinted at an impending technological singularity. However, experts, including Shahab Bakhtiari, a professor leading the systems neuroscience and AI lab at the University of Montreal, and Alexander Bates, a research fellow in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School studying fly brains, found that the claim of a "real uploaded animal" was insufficient to fully validate the claims. They also expressed concern that the company was not close to capturing the full brain of the fly, showing connections between cells but not crucial details like neurotransmitters or how strong the connections between different nerve cells are.