# 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.

- Published: 2026-10-31T06:11:49.283Z
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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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