How AI Is Changing the Pace of Discovery for Millions Living With Dementia

C-BRAIN, a consortium of 18 institutions led by Dr. Randall Bateman and working with NVIDIA, launched in November 2025 to use AI to speed Alzheimer's research by drawing on previously inaccessible "dark data" through a hybrid centralized and federated approach. Its two tools, OpenScientist and InsightEngine, have completed analyses in minutes that scientists estimated would take weeks to months, at under $10 per run. The consortium aims to build a multimodal biological foundation model and, by year three, discover new causal mechanisms of brain aging and Alzheimer's disease.