Brain cells, then a video model
The Biological Computing Co. grows living neurons on electrode arrays and studies how they compute. It encodes images and video into the cells, reads back how they respond, and turns what it learns into adapters for AI models.
The company was founded by two neurosurgeons, CEO Alex Ksendzovsky and COO Jon Pomeraniec. It raised a $25M seed round led by Primary Ventures in February 2026 and runs a wet lab in Mission Bay, San Francisco.
On 30 October it shipped the first result anyone can use: mischief 1, an image-to-video model. It starts at 0.5 cents a second and runs at least five times faster than the model it is based on. It went live as the cheapest image-to-video model on fal and OpenRouter, with AWS Marketplace to follow.
for four years, we’ve been brewing real brain cells on electrodes to understand how they compute.
That line carries the launch. Most people have never heard of computing with living neurons, and the post hands them a model built from that work for half a cent a second.
What Doomers ran
Doomers ran the launch. The post went out from the founder’s own account, so the launch window had to bring the audience a company account would usually supply.
Creators, founders and researchers from the network, with audiences in AI, video generation and science, quoted the post in the first hours with their own take on it. Each quote put a brain-cell video model in front of an audience of its own, and by the time organic pickup arrived there was a conversation to join.
The research, the model and the copy were TBC’s. The timing, the voices and the first hours were ours.
Trending on X from 800 followers
The founder posted at 13:01 UTC. X opened a trending story on the launch at 15:40 UTC, two hours and forty minutes later.
X builds those stories from many separate accounts posting about the same thing in a short window. A post from 800 followers needs many accounts posting about it at once to get there, and that is the job the launch window does. How to trend on X covers what X looks for.
The account grew with it. The founder went from about 800 followers to 5,825, an audience for the next release.
Past Kimi on the same day
Moonshot AI launched 3D Make in Kimi the same day, to 389,505 followers.
| Launch | Followers | Views | Bookmarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBC mischief 1 | 800 | 2.2M | 7,289 |
| Kimi 3D Make | 389,505 | 160K | 1,352 |
A founder account about 490 times smaller drew more views and more bookmarks.
The launch by the numbers
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Views | 2,225,825 |
| Bookmarks | 7,289 |
| Quote posts | 842 |
| Reach against its following at launch | 2,782 times |
| Time to a trending story on X | 2 h 40 min |
| Followers | About 800 at launch, 5,825 now |
The post
today, we introduce a little mischief to the world.
for four years, we’ve been brewing real brain cells on electrodes to understand how they compute. now, we’ve turned those discoveries into a video model anyone can use.
from 0.5¢ a second, mischief 1 is at least 5x faster than its base and the cheapest image-to-video model on @fal and @OpenRouter. soon to be on @awscloud marketplace.
See the live numbers on the launch page →
Questions we get asked
What did The Biological Computing Co. launch?
On 30 October 2026 it launched mischief 1, an image-to-video model built from four years of research on living brain cells grown on electrodes. It starts at 0.5 cents a second, runs at least five times faster than the model it is based on, and is live on fal and OpenRouter, with AWS Marketplace to follow.
How do brain cells make a video model?
The company grows living neurons on electrode arrays, encodes data such as images and video into them, and reads back how they respond. What it learns from that activity becomes adapters that make frontier models more efficient. mischief 1 is the first of those to ship as a model anyone can use.
Who is behind The Biological Computing Co.?
Two neurosurgeons: CEO Alex Ksendzovsky and COO Jon Pomeraniec. The company, formerly Biological Black Box, raised a $25M seed round led by Primary Ventures in February 2026 and runs a wet lab in Mission Bay, San Francisco.
Who ran the launch?
Doomers. We ran the launch window around the founder's post: creators, founders and researchers from the network with audiences in AI, video generation and science quoted it in the first hours with their own take.
How many views did the launch get?
The founder's post stands at 2.2M views, from an account of about 800 followers when it went out. It trended on X about two hours and forty minutes after posting, and passed Kimi's launch from the same day, which went out to 389,505 followers.