Last spring, Meisa Salaita, cofounder of Science ATL, which organizes the Atlanta Science Festival, touched a human brain. “Each year during the festival, a brain is displayed,” she explains.

At the Mobile World Congress 2025, held in Barcelona until March 6, the Australian start-up Cortical Labs is causing a stir with the CL1, billed as the world's first ever commercial biocomputer.

Cortical Labs has unveiled CL1 – an AI computer that fuses real human brain cells with silicon hardware. Remarkably, it's been launched commercially as the "world's first commercialized ...