AI Models Built From Rat Brains Just Got Closer to Reality
From 23 September 2026, selected AWS customers can use a text-to-video model whose optimisations were derived from living rat and human neurons grown on Swiss-made electrode arrays. The Biological Computing Co. claims 5x faster generation and 80% lower inference cost from a software layer that adds under 0.1% to the base model — but will not name the open-source system it is measured against. This article covers how the laboratory loop works, why the company started with video rather than language, the $50m-plus funding, the contrast with Cortical Labs’ wetware-as-a-service, and the scaling doubt Amazon’s own director raised on the record.
