Alex Wilhelm

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67,402 appearances 274 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 19 Aug

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This Week in Startups · This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295 · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

Hello and welcome back to Twist. voice-verified

Now today we're talking to a company we spoke to in 2025 because I thought they were one of the most interesting startups in the entire world. voice-verified

Called Cortical Labs, they are trying to fuse silicon chip. voice-verified

That we all know and love with human neurons bringing the biologic and the synthetic together to create a new type of computer, a biological computer. voice-verified

I was so tickled by the idea, I had to talk to them. voice-verified

But since that first conversation, Cortical Labs has built out data centers of its biological computers, which means that we now have real robust capacity to kind of bring humans and computers together. voice-verified

So, to tell us more about what's been going on over in the realm of Cortical Labs. voice-verified

Please welcome back to the show. voice-verified

It's my dear friend Han. voice-verified

Han, how you doing? voice-verified

Yes, that's why I've been extra tired these last four months, but we're powering through with the just the grace of coffee. voice-verified

Um, all right, so so Han, last time we talked, you had just put out your CL1, which was the first kind of like fully contained biological computer with neurons and chips, and you were selling them, I think, for something like thirty-five thousand dollars a piece. voice-verified

So before we get deep into the tech, just for the business folks out there, how has that voice-verified

product performed in market. voice-verified

So tell folks uh what the CL1 is, and maybe uh because you have one with you, show us a little bit for folks on the video version, uh, what it looks like. voice-verified

I'm just laughing because we're talking about, you know, rack mounting and how much space it takes up in a server rack. voice-verified

And then you're like, and here are the lungs and here's the where it expels waste. voice-verified

It's such an interesting combination of things that I understand, but never see together. voice-verified

Now, how many neurons can you pack into a CL1 and then in voice-verified

Compute friendly terms, how much power is that that you bring to bear? voice-verified

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