Swiss technology company FinalSpark has launched a program that allows scientists to rent access to “biocomputers” made from human brain cells for $500 a month.

According to FinalSpart, these biocomputers are intended to offer a more efficient and energy-saving alternative for training artificial intelligence (AI) models.

The company claims that using organic material, such as human brain cells, to train artificial intelligence could be up to 100,000 times more efficient than traditional silicon-based systems.

According to Fred Jordan, founder of FinalSpark, the technology called Neurospark is unique because it offers biocomputers made up of clusters of human brain cells, called organoids. The program offers real-time online access to these living biocomputers, opening up new possibilities in AI development.

Training AI with brain cells

Training AI using these biocomputers requires different techniques than usual. Usually, AI models are trained using numerical rewards to guide them. However, when using brain cells, scientists rely on biological methods.

They produce dopamine, a chemical associated with rewards in the brain, to promote learning, and use electrical signals as negative feedback. This process better reflects how real human brains learn and adapt.

The only limitation is that these biocomputers have a short lifespan, usually around 100 days, after which the AI ​​system must be transferred to a new cluster or it will stop working.

While this limitation exists, it points to future possibilities, such as creating longer-lived AI that may one day be more closely aligned with human experience.

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