AI learned from living neurons and now makes video for pennies

San Francisco startup The Biological Computing Co. (TBC) grows living neurons in the lab, studies how they process information and turns what it finds into tricks for ordinary AI models. On Friday, October 30, it opened its first product built this way to everyone: mischief 1, a model that turns a still image into video.

It is built on the open Wan 2.2 model. TBC says the quality stays the same while generation gets five times faster. A second of video costs half a cent, a five second clip is 2.5 cents and a hundred clips come to $2.50. The company says that makes it the cheapest image to video model on fal and OpenRouter, where mischief 1 is already live.

No, the neurons are not shipped to users. They stay in the lab, and what comes out is regular software for standard hardware that adds less than 0.1% to the base model's parameters. Five weeks ago TBC announced a deal with AWS for enterprise customers, and now access is open to anyone. Next, the company plans to bring the same findings to language models and AI for robots.

How much of this is biology and how much is marketing is impossible to judge from outside, since there are no independent tests yet. But you can try it right now, for a couple of cents.