By CORTICAL LABS has unveiled the CL1, what it calls the world’s first commercially available “code-deployable biological computer.”
It’s powered by live, lab-grown human neurons embedded on a chip and sustained by a complex life-support system.
Customers can either purchase the device or rent access to its biological processing power through the company’s “Wetware-as-a-Service” cloud platform.
Designed for advanced AI research and interactive learning experiments, the CL1 marks a new era of hybrid intelligence where silicon meets synapse.
The system is kept alive by a built-in biotechnological infrastructure that mimics bodily functions like heart pumping and kidney filtration.
Its neurons, cultivated on a silicon chip, receive sensory input from a simulated world via proprietary software dubbed biOS.
In turn, the neurons send electrical impulses back into the virtual environment, essentially “thinking” and reacting like a tiny brain in a digital terrarium.
Though still in its early stages, the CL1 hints at the unsettling yet fascinating future of biological computing—a future where living cells can be programmed like software, raising profound ethical and technological questions.
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