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

I want to make an analogy here because I think that everyone's very familiar with the idea of parameters in an in an LLM. voice-verified

You know, like um one oh five B would be a hundred and five billion parameters. voice-verified

If it's mixture of experts, yes, fewer than 105 billion would be activated, blah, blah, blah. voice-verified

But we kind of get that number. voice-verified

So 200,000 neurons, a million neurons, same number to me. voice-verified

I have no idea if that's a lot, not very many. voice-verified

So how many neurons do I have upstairs? voice-verified

And uh voice-verified

How many do you need to actually have the C L1 function as a biological computer? voice-verified

So that actually doesn't uh tell me why I'm wrong here, Han, but um voice-verified

Cockroach is not famous for their intelligence, famous for their durability, but I mean not not for being super smart. voice-verified

But when you combine that number of neurons with a a a a chip, a silicon chip, um, what what's like the the multiplication factor that we get from bringing those two things together? voice-verified

So when I w when I think about biological computing, I I presume we're talking about a lot of use cases in voice-verified

drug testing and drug discovery, you know, biosimilars, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. voice-verified

All the stuff that's kind of flesh and blood. voice-verified

But do you foresee a future in which the probably not the C L one, maybe the C L three, uh manages to bring silicon and neurons together in a way that creates a computer that is better than voice-verified

today's GPUs and TPUs and so forth at certain types of calculations that we use in the technology world versus the biology world. voice-verified

if if biological computing is good at reinforcement learning, which as I think everyone listening to this knows is an enormous part of improving AI models today. voice-verified

You could end up pretty far outside of the realm of the biology side of of industry. voice-verified

That's very interesting. voice-verified

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