The Biological Computing Company raises $25M seed round and opens Mission Bay wet lab

A startup founded by two neurosurgeons just made the jump from science fiction to Amazon Web Services. The Biological Computing Company, known as TBC, is bringing its neuron-powered AI optimization tools to AWS, marking one of the most unusual cloud computing partnerships in recent memory. The core idea: grow living rat neurons (and human stem-cell-derived neurons) on electrode arrays, then use the biological signals to improve how AI models generate video. What TBC actually built TBC cultivates neurons on multi-electrode arrays containing up to 4,096 electrodes per array. These arrays record how biological neural networks respond to encoded data like images and video, and TBC’s software translates those responses into adapters that can be layered onto existing transformer-based AI models. The key selling point is that end users never need to touch any biological hardware. TBC’s adapters function as software plugins that slot into models developers are already running. On July 30, TBC released a proof-of-concept targeting Decart’s OASIS 500M model, a relatively compact video generation system. The results were striking: a 2x improvement in video quality, 4.4x lower inference costs,...