TBC's Mischief 1 video model runs on GPUs, not living neurons
Fioti says Mischief 1 is Wan on GPUs with a LoRA. TBC's own release says the neurons stay in the lab and the software adds under 0.1% of parameters.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: x.com
Why it matters
TBC has raised $52 million on the claim that living neurons can teach silicon models to compute more efficiently. Mischief 1 is the first product outside developers can price and test, and its public Wan 2.2 baseline makes the central question measurable: whether biology contributed a repeatable gain beyond familiar post-training and serving optimization.
Luminal founder Joe Fioti (@joefioti) called The Biological Computing Co.'s Mischief 1 launch "very dishonest" on October 31st, arguing in a post on X that the model is "just Wan on GPUs with a LoRA" presented as if it ran on biology.…
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