Microsoft Research, UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Columbia researchers introduced generative causal testing. The method converts black-box language-brain prediction models into short hypotheses, then tests them by having an LLM write stories meant to activate targeted cortical regions.
Meta said on March 26, 2026 that TRIBE v2 is a foundation model for predicting human brain responses to sight, sound, and language. The supporting paper and demo highlight zero-shot generalization, prediction across 70,000 voxels, and public releases of the paper, code, and model weights.
Meta said on March 26, 2026 that TRIBE v2 can predict high-resolution fMRI brain activity with zero-shot generalization across new subjects, languages, and tasks. The company is also releasing the model, code, paper, and demo for researchers.