After 4 Years Growing Brain Cells on Electrodes, Team Launches Video Model Mischief 1 at 0.5¢ per Second
damianplayer · x · 2026-10-30
Alex Ksendzovsky's team unveiled Mischief 1, a video generation model born from four years of growing real brain cells on electrodes to study how they compute.
Key facts:
- Priced at 0.5¢ per second, claiming to be at least 5× faster than its base model and the cheapest image-to-video model on fal and OpenRouter
- Coming soon to AWS Marketplace
- Framed as proof that "biocompute is real, commercial," released on Halloween
The retweeting author's reaction: a company that grew brain cells now ships a video model anyone can use — the timeline is insane.
Related event: Startup Turns Four Years of Lab-Grown Neurons Into Cheapest Video Model(3 posts)→
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