Rat-neuron-derived AI model lands on AWS, performance claim unverified

The Biological Computing Company's "rat brain" AI model opens to select AWS customers on September 22 as a limited preview, after previously being available only through the small neocloud provider Bluesky Compute.

The technology uses activity patterns from rat neurons on multi-electrode arrays to improve video generation models. The company claims inference up to five times faster than an open-source video model it runs, but declines to name the comparison model. That is a vendor-tested figure with no third-party verification.

TBC has raised more than $50 million in total, including an additional $25 million first reported by WIRED. AWS executive Deap Ubhi himself raised the open question: whether fidelity holds when customers generate videos of ten minutes or longer remains unknown.