nupic

They could seek patents on their own work, making it proprietary and blocking progress of open source NuPIC developers.

They promise not to sue [1], and pledge that future patents are for the 'protection of the NuPIC community'.

NuPIC was released as free software, in part, because there has been a strong interest in the academic research community.

NuPIC is a Python / C++ open source project that implements hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) as described in the HTM White Paper.

By keeping our patent portfolio current, we retain the ability to protect the NuPIC community from these threats.

I've been experimenting with their open source software, NuPIC [1][2], a lot on my own and I see potential.

Im working on this now, but not using grok, using NuPIC core directly.

It was one of my early exposures to NuPic, CLA, HTM, Jeff Hawkins, etc.

Numenta has also open-sourced an implementation of HTM, NuPIC [4].

The principle reason is to protect the NuPIC community.

Thanks Michael and Scott for try NuPIC Studio!

It leaves Numenta legally in charge of the NuPIC community, instead of letting it evolve, because it's the only entity that can write a GPLv3 on future patents.

The blog post (which is not a legally binding contract in any way) also has this little gem: "It should be noted that Numenta/Grok holds patents that do not pertain to the algorithms released in NuPIC.

In addition to filing select patents going forward, we also will evaluate other measures that would enhance patent protection for the NuPIC community." Since this is a long-term project, it's more important that Numenta is able to protect the community it is building from patent trolls, and this is one approach to doing that.

The "Pentti Kanerva" described in the article as an "old friend of Hofstadter" and his first wife, Carol, was the originator of the "sparse distributed memory" idea that appears to be what NuPIC is based on and, I believe, either co-founded Redwood Neuroscience / Numenta with Hawkins or soon joined it.

Numenta implemented the theory as an open source project called Nupic.