A biological computing startup that uses neural patterns from rat brain cells to build artificial intelligence just got a major boost from Amazon. Starting Tuesday, select Amazon Web Services customers will gain access to The Biological Computing Company’s “rat brain” AI model as part of a limited preview. The startup’s technology is specifically designed to improve AI for generating videos. Both Amazon and The Biological Computing Company , which goes by the acronym TBC, says they expect the tech to roll out to all AWS enterprise customers soon. “We figured out a way to code information, like images for example, to the biological material,” says TBC cofounder Alexander Ksendzovsky. “We then observe how the biology processes that information, and then we build a tool that mimics that process.” This is not the first biologically-derived computing platform that Amazon has made available in its marketplace, says Deap Ubhi, global director of technology for startups at Amazon Web Services. Ubhi says the cloud-computing giant also works with Cortical Labs, an Australia-based company that combines lab-grown neurons with silicon chips to help companies process data. (It calls its products WAAS, or “wetware as a service.”) Cortical Labs also sells a multi-thousand dollar “biological computer,” a low-power device designed for use in laboratories that can supposedly keep neurons alive for six months. TBC takes a “pragmatic approach,” says Ubhi, which is part of why the company appealed

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A biological computing startup that uses neural patterns from rat brain cells to build artificial intelligence just got a major boost from Amazon. Starting Tuesday, select Amazon Web Services customers will gain access to The Biological Computing Company’s “rat brain” AI model as part of a limited preview. The startup’s technology is specifically designed to improve AI for generating videos. Both Amazon and The Biological Computing Company , which goes by the acronym TBC, says they expect the tech to roll out to all AWS enterprise customers soon. “We figured out a way to code information, like images for example, to the biological material,” says TBC cofounder Alexander Ksendzovsky. “We then observe how the biology processes that information, and then we build a tool that mimics that proce

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