AWS Opens Limited Preview of TBC's Rat-Brain AI Model, Claiming 5x Faster Video Generation
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Updated · WIRED · Sep 22
AWS Opens Limited Preview of TBC's Rat-Brain AI Model, Claiming 5x Faster Video Generation
2 articles · Updated · WIRED · Sep 22
Summary
Select AWS customers can access The Biological Computing Company’s biologically derived video model from Tuesday in a limited preview, with Amazon and TBC aiming for a broader enterprise rollout soon.
TBC says the software learns from neural responses in rat brain cells mapped to images, then mimics those processing patterns to make existing video-generation models more efficient.
The startup claims the model runs up to five times faster than the open-source frontier video system it builds on and cuts inference costs; until now, it was available only through Bluesky Compute.
Amazon said TBC appealed because it works within current generative-AI standards rather than replacing transformer architectures, though AWS also flagged unanswered questions about scaling to long-form video without losing fidelity.
Baltimore-based TBC has raised more than $50 million this year, including an unreported $25 million round after March, as biological computing gains traction despite the complexity of running live-cell labs.