The biological computer challenging silicon’s limits
Brett Kagan (Chief Scientific Officer) on how Cortical Labs built a living processor from 800,000 neurons
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What if your computer could think more like a brain, not with transistors, but with neurons?
Earlier this year, Melbourne-based Cortical Labs unveiled the CL1: the world’s first commercial biological computer. It uses 800,000 lab-grown human neurons reprogrammed from skin or blood samples to process information. These cells don’t just run code, they learn, adapt, and even outperform machine learning systems in certain scenarios.
