Brain-cell startup BioComputingCo releases a video model it says runs five times faster

A startup spent four years growing real brain cells on electrodes. The thing they ended up shipping is a video generator that costs half a cent a second. Took me a minute to see how those two connect. Your brain runs on about 20 watts and still learns new things from a few examples, which no data center comes close to. AI video is about the most compute-hungry thing you can ask a model to do, and so far the industry's answer has been bigger chips and campuses measured in gigawatts. @BioComputingCo went at it from the biology side. By their account they studied how living neurons process information and built what they learned into a model that runs on normal GPUs, with no cells anywhere in the product. The model is called mischief 1. They say it runs at least 5x faster than its base…

The era of hardcore fundamental research is back! This is key to improving AI efficiency. The brain runs on roughly 20 watts, so it makes sense to study how it computes. @BioComputingCo has been doing that with living neurons for four years. Their first product is mischief 1, a video model at least 5x faster than its base model. I'm curious to see where this research goes after video.

I got the chance to work on the landing page for a new video model from a lab that grows real brain cells. insanely cheap at half a cent a second. had a lot of fun creating three.js concepts with opus 5.5. here's my workflow. check out mischief-1: