Amazon launches preview of rat-brain AI model for video generation

The Biological Computing Company, a Baltimore-based venture that programs rat brain cells to process visual information, will offer its AI model to a limited group of Amazon Web Services customers beginning Tuesday. By encoding images into living neural tissue and observing the resulting activity, TBC says it can create a tool that mimics the brain’s processing, delivering video generation up to five times faster than a leading open-source model and reducing inference costs.

The company, founded by Alexander Ksendzovsky and Jon Pomeraniec, secured two $25 million funding rounds this year, bringing total capital above $50 million. Amazon’s Deap Ubhi highlighted that the collaboration fits a “pragmatic” strategy of enhancing current generative-AI standards rather than overhauling core architectures. TBC’s technology builds on multi-electrode silicon arrays from Swiss biotech firm 3Brain and follows earlier AWS offerings such as Cortical Labs’ wet-ware-as-a-service platform. The startup hopes to expand the service to all AWS enterprise clients after the preview phase, while monitoring scalability and fidelity for longer-form video outputs.