Active Inference Institute

May 2026 Newsletter 📡 🐟 🐌 Active Inference Institute
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/may-2026-newsletter-active-inference

April 2026 Newsletter 🌿 🧅 🛠️ Active Inference Institute
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/april-2026-newsletter-active-inference

March 2026 Newsletter 🐐 📰 🏵️ Active Inference Institute
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/march-2026-newsletter-active-inference

2026 Quarterly Roundtable #1 https://www.youtube.com/live/_HkuQ0HhikQ

Announcements for week of March 25, 2026
http://weekly.activeinference.institute/

Tune in on Friday March 27 at 18 UTC to watch the 2026 Quarterly Roundtable #1 https://www.youtube.com/live/_HkuQ0HhikQ: find out what the Institute has been up to in the first part of 2026, and (some of) what is upcoming this year.

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Upcoming Livestreams:

* GuestStream #127.1 ~ 3/26/2026 at 15 UTC
with Borjan Milinković and Jaan Aru
On biological and artificial consciousness: A case for biological computationalism
https://www.youtube.com/live/yFaRYAvix_Q
* Roundtable 2026.1 ~ 3/27/2026 at 18 UTC
2026 Quarterly Roundtable #1
https://www.youtube.com/live/_HkuQ0HhikQ
* ModelStream #007.3 ~ 4/9/2026 at 15 UTC
with Conor Heins et al.: “pymdp 1.0.0“
https://www.youtube.com/live/dBAx-VDVcPQ
Code: https://github.com/infer-actively/pymdp

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“Fundamentals of Active Inference” textbook group

* The first cohort of the “Fundamentals of Active Inference: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications of the Free Energy Principle for Engineers” textbook group is starting on April 21st!
* Register for the Textbook group here — http://textbook-group.activeinference.institute/
* Learn more about the author, Sanjeev Namjoshi, here — https://sanjeevnamjoshi.com/

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Open Project Meetings this week:

See http://activities.activeinference.institute/ for the location of all events listed here.

* 3/26/2026, 13:00 UTC — RxInfer.jl ~ Learning session.
* 3/27/2026, 13:00 UTC — RxInfer.jl ~ Projects session.

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* Join the Discord: http://discord.activeinference.institute/
* Learn more about the Active Inference Ecosystem http://ecosystem.activeinference.institute/
* Make a Measurement to get your update included in the upcoming Newsletter: http://measure.activeinference.institute/
* We are a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit. Donate at: http://donate.activeinference.institute/
* Email [email protected] with any questions.

Announcements for week of March 9, 2026
http://weekly.activeinference.institute/

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Upcoming Livestreams:

* GuestStream #127.1 ~ 3/16/2026 at 16 UTC
Borjan Milinković and Jaan Aru: On biological and artificial consciousness: A case for biological computationalism
https://www.youtube.com/live/yFaRYAvix_Q

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“Fundamentals of Active Inference” textbook group.

* We will have a collaborative textbook group For the upcoming textbook “Fundamentals of Active Inference: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications of the Free Energy Principle for Engineers” by Sanjeev V. Namjoshi (2026) — starting in April 2026! All details and registration form at: http://textbook-group.activeinference.institute/

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Open Project Meetings this week:

See http://activities.activeinference.institute/ for the location of all events listed here.

* 3/12/2026, 13:00 UTC — RxInfer.jl ~ Learning session.
* 3/13/2026, 13:00 UTC — RxInfer.jl ~ Projects session.

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* Join the Discord: http://discord.activeinference.institute/
* Learn more about the Active Inference Ecosystem http://ecosystem.activeinference.institute/
* Make a Measurement to get your update included in the upcoming Newsletter: http://measure.activeinference.institute/
* We are a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit. Donate at: http://donate.activeinference.institute/
* Email [email protected] with any questions.

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February 2026 Newsletter 🕸️💓🚋 Active Inference Institute
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/february-2026-newsletter-active-inference

Announcements for week of February 9, 2026
http://weekly.activeinference.institute/

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Upcoming Livestreams:

* GuestStream #015.4 ~ 2/25/2026 at 18 UTC
Bobby Azarian: “A Strange Loop Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness”
https://www.youtube.com/live/dTcuDE6nUpg
* ModelStream #021.1 ~ 3/5/2026 at 13 UTC
Melih Kandemir: “Distributional Active Inference“
https://www.youtube.com/live/2NB7hTsp_F0

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“Fundamentals of Active Inference” textbook group.

* We will have a collaborative textbook group For the upcoming textbook “Fundamentals of Active Inference: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications of the Free Energy Principle for Engineers” by Sanjeev V. Namjoshi (2026) — starting in March 2026! All details and registration form at: http://textbook-group.activeinference.institute/

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Open Project Meetings this week:

See http://activities.activeinference.institute/ for the location of all events listed here.

* 2/12/2026, 13:00 UTC — RxInfer.jl @ Active Inference Institute.

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* Join the Discord: http://discord.activeinference.institute/
* Learn more about the Active Inference Ecosystem http://ecosystem.activeinference.institute/
* Make a Measurement to get your update included in the upcoming Newsletter: http://measure.activeinference.institute/
* We are a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit. Donate at: http://donate.activeinference.institute/
* Email [email protected] with any questions.

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January 2026 Newsletter 🥧 🌤️ 🖌️ Active Inference Institute
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/january-2026-newsletter-active-inference

Announcements for week of January 26, 2026
http://weekly.activeinference.institute/

More to come over the next weeks in terms of Institute direction and opportunities for participation.
Stay tuned via social media platforms and our newsletter http://newsletter.activeinference.institute/

For now:

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Upcoming Livestreams:

* GuestStream #126.1 ~ 1/29/2026 at 15 UTC with Chris Fields, James F Glazebrook
Distributed Information and Computation in Generic Quantum Systems
https://www.youtube.com/live/jm70DuWHUI0
* ModelStream #020.1 ~ 1/30/2026 at 14 UTC with Kenric Nelson, Igor Oliveira, Megan Hess
Variational Inference Optimized Using the Curved Geometry of Coupled Free Energy
https://www.youtube.com/live/CFqMSSJ1X5g
* See https://youtu.be/TaFwI2zr_lE for more information if you would like to contribute to the scheduling and production of future livestreams.

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“Fundamentals of Active Inference” textbook group.

* We will have a collaborative textbook group For the upcoming textbook “Fundamentals of Active Inference: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications of the Free Energy Principle for Engineers” by Sanjeev V. Namjoshi (2026) — starting in March 2026! All details and registration form at: http://textbook-group.activeinference.institute/

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Open Project Meetings this week:

See http://activities.activeinference.institute/ for all participation affordances this week.

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* Join the Discord: http://discord.activeinference.institute/
* Learn more about the Active Inference Ecosystem http://ecosystem.activeinference.institute/
* Make a Measurement, to get your update included in the upcoming Newsletter: http://measure.activeinference.institute/
* We are a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit. Donate at: http://donate.activeinference.institute/
* Email [email protected] with any questions.

December 2025 Newsletter 🗝️🎲🐧 Active Inference Institute
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/december-2025-newsletter-active-inference