@AlgoCompSynth @futurebird The connectome is a very small piece of the puzzle that would be required for emulating any organism's brain in any significant complexity.
We're only now beginning to simulate some of the behaviors of C. elegans using realistic models (OpenWorm and BAAIWorm for example), and that's a far less complex organism than an ant.
For example, we have several Drosophila connectome datasets at this point (released after the linked paper was published), but we're still far from simulating D. melanogaster. This paper is a good explanation of roughly what we still need before we could begin a OpenWorm-esque project for D. melanogaster.
Depending on which paper you read, ant species tend to have slightly to significantly more complex connectomes than Drosophila.