In 2022, the team at Cortical Labs taught 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish connected to a computer how to play the 1970s game Pong. Now, years later, the same team is leveling up as they claim their CL1 system is the "world's first code deployable biological computer," and is able to play Doom.
2026, man www.newscientist.com/article/2517 ...
-- Mark Lemley (@marklemley.bsky.social) Mar 6, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Startup Builds Data Centers Powered by Human Brain Cells
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... A biotechnology startup is developing experimental data centers powered by living human brain cells in a radical approach that could eventually reshape the future of computing. According to a report by Bloomberg, Australia-based Cortical Labs is building small data centers that run on lab-grown neurons placed on silicon chips, an innovation that researchers believe could one day challenge traditional processors used in artificial intelligence systems. ...
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