The Biological Computing Co.'s neuron-derived video model

The Biological Computing Co. (TBC) released Mischief 1 on October 30, 2026, an image-to-video model the company claims is the first publicly available AI video model derived from measurements of living neurons. The model is built on Alibaba's open-source Wan 2.2 with a bio-inspired software layer that adds less than 0.1% to its parameters. TBC grows roughly 150,000 living neurons on arrays of about 4,096 electrodes, presents images to those cells as electrical stimulation, and translates observations of how the neurons respond into software optimizations that run on standard GPUs. No biological hardware is required in customer infrastructure. TBC claims Mischief 1 matches Wan 2.2 quality at five times the speed and 80% lower compute cost, though no independent benchmarks have been published. The model is API-only with no weights released, available on fal and OpenRouter starting at $0.005 per second, supporting 16:9 clips of three or five seconds at 16 fps in 480p or 720p. AWS Marketplace access is described as coming soon. TBC and AWS announced a partnership on September 22, 2026, to scale the approach across AWS Trainium and Amazon SageMaker AI.