Cortical Labs is an Australian biological-computing company based in Melbourne. Its 2022 DishBrain work placed cultured cortical neurons in a closed-loop Pong environment, providing one of the best-known early demonstrations of real-time synthetic biological intelligence.
The company's current platform is CL1, which grows neurons directly on a custom silicon interface and exposes recording and stimulation through software. Cortical Cloud provides remote access to biological computing without requiring users to maintain the culture hardware themselves.
Why it matters
Cortical Labs has pushed living-neural computing from a bespoke experimental setup toward a defined product and developer platform. Claims about learning efficiency and energy advantage still need to be separated from independently benchmarked system-level performance.