Numenta
Updated: November 13, 2025
Founders: Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky
Country: USA | Add Funding
Founded: 2005
Website: https://www.numenta.com
Numenta is a startup by Jeff Hawkins, the author of renowned books on AI ("On Intelligence" and "A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence") and his own theory of brain structure. Therefore, the startup's primary goal was initially to understand the neocortex (the primary cerebral cortex) and apply its principles to the creation of machine intelligence. The theory, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) describes a learning and prediction model inspired by the cerebral cortex. The company has published open-source code of its framework (Thousand Brains Project) - a platform for sensory-motor learning. The company's main product, the Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC), is also based on algorithms, data structures and architecture inspired by the brain.
Founded: 2005
Website: https://www.numenta.com
Numenta is a startup by Jeff Hawkins, the author of renowned books on AI ("On Intelligence" and "A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence") and his own theory of brain structure. Therefore, the startup's primary goal was initially to understand the neocortex (the primary cerebral cortex) and apply its principles to the creation of machine intelligence. The theory, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) describes a learning and prediction model inspired by the cerebral cortex. The company has published open-source code of its framework (Thousand Brains Project) - a platform for sensory-motor learning. The company's main product, the Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC), is also based on algorithms, data structures and architecture inspired by the brain.
