🧠 Stat of the Day: The Human Computer

With the emergence of AI in recent years, robots are more personified now than ever before—but one company is taking things even further.

Australian startup Cortical Labs recently launched the CL1—a combination of human brain cells and regular silicon-based hardware which the company says is the world’s first commercial biological computer.

The CL1 is a shoebox-sized system designed as an alternative to conventional AI, with its unique makeup enabling a more flexible, learning-capable, and energy efficient computing framework.

• The biological computer’s complex neural networks can be used to revolutionize how drug discovery and disease modeling is researched, according to Cortical Labs.

Looking ahead…The CL1 units, which retail for ~$35,000 apiece but only “live” for six months, will become widely available in late 2025.

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