GPUs go biological: BBB unveils Bionode, lab-grown, living neuron compute for AI applications

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Graphics processing units (GPUs), the expensive computer chips made by the likes of Nvidia, AMD and Sima.ai, are no longer the only way to train and deploy artificial intelligence. Biological Black Box (BBB), a Baltimore-founded startup developing a new class of AI hardware, has emerged from stealth with its Bionode platform—a computing system that integrates living, lab-grown neurons with traditional processors. The company, which has been operating quietly while filing patents and refining its technology, believes its biological computing approach — growing new neurons specifically to act as computer chips using donor human stem cells and rat-derived cells — could offer a low-power, adaptive alternative to conventional GPUs. “Over the last 20 years, three independent fields—biology, hardware, and computational tools—have advanced to the point where biolog ... Read full article.