A video model tuned on living neurons goes to AWS customers

The Biological Computing Co., a San Francisco company led by Alex Ksendzovsky, announced with Amazon Web Services on 22 September 2026 a partnership to sell a text-to-video generation model whose improvements come from living neurons.

The neurons do not travel with the product. They stay in TBC’s laboratory, where measurements of their activity are used to build a proprietary software layer added to an open-source video foundation model. According to the companies, that layer adds less than 0.1% overhead and makes generation 5 times faster at 80% lower inference cost than the base model. No independent benchmark was published with the announcement.

The model runs on AWS Trainium chips, is deployed through Amazon SageMaker AI and will be listed on AWS Marketplace, with early-access sign-up opened by TBC. It is a different route from the wetware rigs other biocompute groups sell, where cultured neurons are themselves the processor: here biology serves as a source of design information, and customers run the result on conventional silicon.