- Cortical Labs has built the first drop -down biological computer, with a price of $ 35,000
- The CL1 integrates live neurons with silicon for real -time calculation
- The next step will be to build a biological neuronal network server battery
Despite the undoubtedly impressive advances that we have witnessed in recent years, AI is still far from human intelligence. While it can process large amounts of data, recognize patterns and generate responses at speed, it lacks true understanding and reasoning, and although it is improving, the problem of hallucinations, when it compensates for things, remains a problem.
Two years ago, Johns Hopkins University researchers in Australia, along with Cortical Labs scientists in Melbourne, suggested that the response to real and less artificial AI was organoids, computers built with human brain cells. Fast advance until today, and Cortical Labs has become the theory into reality with the production of the world’s first biological computer.
The CL1, which will be manufactured on request, but is available for online purchase (the option to buy time in the chips will also be offered), it is a synthetic biological intelligence (SBI).
Connect directly to neurons
“Royal neurons are grown within a nutrient -rich solution, providing them with everything they need to be healthy. They grow through a silicon chip, which sends and receives electrical impulses to the neuronal structure, “says the company.
The world in which neurons exist is created by the Biological Intelligence (BIOS) operating system of Cortical Labs and “executes a simulated world and sends information directly to neurons about their environment. As neurons react, their impulses affect their simulated world. We give life to these neurons and integrate into the BIOS with a mixture of hard silicon and soft tissue. You can connect directly to these neurons. “
By deploying code directly to real neurons, the company affirms that CL1 can solve today’s most difficult challenges: “The neuron is self -programmatory, infinitely flexible and the result of four billion years of evolution. The digital models spend huge resources trying to emulate, we begin.”
“Today is the culmination of a vision that has promoted cortical laboratories for almost six years,” said Dr. Hon Weng Chong, founder and CEO of Cortical Labs. “However, our long -term mission has been to democratize this technology, so it is accessible to researchers without specialized hardware and software. The CL1 is the realization of that mission. Although the announcement of today is incredibly The basis for the next stage of innovation.
A report from New AtlasCortical claims is building a “biological neuronal network server stack of its kind, which houses 30 individual units containing the cells in their electrodes matrix, which is expected to connect in the coming months.” The site informs that the company aims to have four batteries available for commercial use through a cloud system for the end of 2025.
As for prices, CL1 will be surprisingly affordable. “The units itself are expected to have a price of around US $ 35,000, to start (anything close to this type of technology currently has a price of € 80,000, or almost US $ 85,000).” New Atlas Add.
For the context, Apple’s “best failure”, the Lisa, which raided the way for Macintosh and even Microsoft Windows, was sold for $ 9,995.00 in January 1983, which, adjusting inflation, works with $ 32,500 comparable today. Will the CL1 prove to be as important for the future of computer science as was the Lisa? It is impossible to say it, but for now its impact will depend largely on scalability, practical applications and how well it is integrated into existing AI and computer systems.
