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Singapore just created a data center powered by living human brain cells. It all starts with something as basic as a blood sample. Scientists reprogram themselves back into stem cells. Then guide them into becoming real living neurons. Those neurons and grow them on a silicon chip covered in electrodes. And this is how it works. The chip sends electrical patterns into the neurons and records how fast they fire back. That loop, stimulus in, spikes out, is the biological part of the computation. A separate AI system then takes those spikes and turns them into actions on your screen. And because it's living tissue, it has to be fed to be kept alive to keep working. They've already shown what this loop can actually do. Training these control a character in a Doom style game in under a week. The Cortical Labs CL1 biological computer hardware costs $35,000 USD per unit. Or you can rent one of these remotely for around $300 per week. And this isn't their first time trying to train a human brain powered computer to play video games. Before CL1, they had an earlier version of these neurons learning to play Pong. Now, is this going to replace every single the planet? It runs at 30 watts, which is stupidly low. And it's also not faster or smarter than any commercial GPU at the moment. But what it actually is is proof that biological computing can leave the lab and become an actual product. Whether it competes with silicon at scale is still open. But a company actually selling this, publishing a paper on it, that's the actual shift. This isn't silicon imitating a brain anymore. It's an actual living neural network doing the processing. If you found this interesting, follow.