# InsightEngine

A consortium of 18 institutions, C-BRAIN, has begun feeding Alzheimer's data that AI tools and human researchers could not previously reach, including unpublished findings, negative results and governed proprietary data, into model training. That data had stayed inside individual institutions, where it could not be synthesized into usable knowledge. A hybrid centralized and federated design lets models learn where the data sits, and two open-source agentic tools have already come out of it; in published case studies OpenScientist finished in minutes analyses that domain scientists estimated would take weeks to months, at under $10 per run.

A consortium of 18 institutions, C-BRAIN, has begun feeding Alzheimer's data that AI tools and human researchers could not previously reach, including unpublished findings, negative results and governed proprietary data, into model training. That data had stayed inside individual institutions, where it could not be synthesized into usable knowledge. A hybrid centralized and federated design lets models learn where the data sits, and two open-source agentic tools have already come out of it; in published case studies OpenScientist finished in minutes analyses that domain scientists estimated would take weeks to months, at under $10 per run.