Cortical Labs secures funding for world's first commercial biological computer CL1
Summary
Cortical Labs, a Melbourne-based startup, has developed the CL1, the world's first commercially available biological computer that grows human neurons on an electrode array. The 22-employee startup has raised over $11 million from investors including Horizons Ventures, Blackbird Ventures, LifeX Ventures, Radar Ventures, and the CIA's In-Q-Tel. Each CL1 unit sells for approximately $35,000.
Why it matters
Cortical Labs' biological computing approach, called Synthetic Biological Intelligence, uses living human neurons to process information, offering potential advantages over silicon-based AI in terms of energy efficiency and learning capabilities. The company launched a cloud-based Wetware-as-a-Service (WaaS) offering and is building a biological data center in Singapore, pioneering an entirely new computing paradigm.
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