The Biological Computing Co.

AI Video Generation · Biocomputing · Generative AI

Launch

TBC launches Mischief 1, an AI video model built from living neurons

The model costs half a cent per second, undercutting every rival image-to-video tool on two major marketplaces.

• TBC launched Mischief 1, an image-to-video AI model, on fal and OpenRouter on October 30, 2026, pricing it at $0.005 per second — the cheapest image-to-video model on both marketplaces.
• TBC was founded by neurosurgeons CEO Alex Ksendzovsky and COO Jon Pomeraniec, who grow living neurons on electrode arrays in a Mission Bay, San Francisco wet lab to study how brain cells compute.
• Mischief 1 builds on Alibaba's open-weight Wan 2.2 model, wrapping each diffusion transformer block in a lightweight software layer that adds less than 0.1% to the parameter count.
• TBC says the model matches Wan 2.2's output quality while generating video 5x faster and cutting inference costs by roughly 80%, though it has not published independent benchmarks.
• The release comes five weeks after TBC announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services to sell its models to enterprise customers, now extending access to individual creators and developers.
• The launch tests whether efficiency principles extracted from living neurons can translate into measurable software gains — a provenance claim that, unlike the video output itself, can't be independently verified from outside TBC's lab.