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Morning Edition · Saturday, October 31, 2026Published at 2:11 AM EDT · New York
A Startup Says Measurements From Lab-Grown Neurons Made an Open Video Model Five Times Faster, Running on Standard GPUs
The Biological Computing Co.'s mischief 1 is built on the open-weight Wan 2.2 model and priced at half a cent per second of video, and no neurons are involved at inference time.
The Biological Computing Co., a San Francisco company, has released mischief 1, an image-to-video model it says generates video five times faster than its base model at matching quality. The base is Wan 2.2, an open-weight video model. The…
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Open-Weight Models Close the Gap With Closed Frontier Labs
Over the next 3-9 months, open-weight releases with downloadable weights, long context, and strong agentic/coding performance increasingly match closed frontier models on practical work, eroding the closed-lab moat.
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