Cortical Labs
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What happens when you grow an organic mind in a digital world?
Melbourne, Australia
Joined September 2019
Meet DishBrain: human brain cells in a dish learn to play Pong. Our latest paper published today in @NeuroCellPress. Full paper at
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Cortical Labs raises $10M for its Pong-playing stem cells which eventually could power AI | TechCrunch
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We’re proud to announce the successful funding round led by @HorizonsHK with participation by @blackbirdvc , @radarfund, InQTel, @LifeXvc and @January_Capital #funding #deeptech #organoidintelligence.
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We've just updated our manifesto - What does it mean to grow a mind?
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Congratulations and thank you to the co-authors of the @NeuroCellPress publication of .“In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world” @ANeuroExplorer @auastro @BradynParker @Forough_HaS @MKhajehnejad @Nhi_Thao_Tran
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Scientists teach brain cells in a dish to play Pong, opening potential path to powerful AI
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Cortical Labs is officially out of stealth! Read more on what we’ve been up to over the past year, and what we see is the future of #AI: @blackbirdvc @jeremyakahn.
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Sharing some exciting Scanning Electron Microscopy images to show the intricate detail of our neural networks hybridising with their silicon substrate. The grid-like lattice structure are the electrodes while the grape-like clusters are the neural networks #neuroscience #ai
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More neural cells forming complex networks. The GIF format seems far better at conveying co-expression of markers than traditional mosaic style images.
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What does it mean to grow a mind? What are human networks raised in a simulation?
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Excited to see activity in developing neural organoids (3D clusters of brain cells) with distinct firing patterns on #MEA. Each red flash is showing the electrical activity from the biological neurons #neuroscience #brains #science
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Testing new ways to image our multielectrode arrays. Still working on it, but you can see the grid like structure of our electrodes which can stimulate and records from cells. Green=neurons, red=neurons & axons, cyan=dendrites, blue=all cells. #neuroscience #brains #science #MEA
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Cortical Labs is looking for a #PHD student to take part in a paid internship organised with #APRIntern to help develop a post-silicon age biological AI chip. See for details.
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What is sentience? What is consciousness? How can we make sure we approach these questions in an ethical way that may even replace areas of animal research?.Check out our new publication in AJOB Neuroscience for more: . . #ethics #neuroscience #DishBrain.
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Tune in at 11:50am CET to see a live connection from Barcelona to the Cortical Labs in Melbourne, AU via @aischannel.
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Thanks @SatoOzawa for coming down to check out the CL0 facilities at our Melbourne HQ feat. @ANeuroExplorer @dr1337
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AI start-up building mini brains with mice embryos and silicon
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Excited to be at #ISSCR2022 and to share some applications of our work with world leading stem cell researchers 🧠🔬
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Today we launch the beta of our SpikeStream Neural Visualiser. We have a replay of our stem-cell NGN-2 neural network on loop and occasionally a live stream of our neurons direct from the laboratory. Check it out here -
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Why do we think the work our team does is important? Well just check out this exciting white paper!.
Massive whitepaper just dropped on why neuroscience progress should continue to drive AI progress: Argues for an embodied turing test. Needed: real interdisciplinary people, shared platform(s), fundamental research.
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A peak at the #hybridisation of biology and silicon. Neural organoids (white blobs) are "mini-brains" made from human derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (IPSCs) that grow on our silicon CMOS chips #cyborgs #cyberpunk #synbio #syntheticintelligence
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Thanks @mxwbio for catching the talk, nice picture in the background of neural cells on the MaxOne!.
Great presentation from @ANeuroExplorer at #ISSCR2022: 2D neuronal cultures learn to play Pong on CMOS high density microelectrode arrays.
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Read our interview with John Koetsier about our work to develop novel hybrid biological computing devices on Forbes
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Continuing on from the last tweet with microscopy showing axons growing from the two organoid blobs and forming synapses to create a neural bridge #synbio #cyborgs #neuroscience #ipsc #syntheticintelligence
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@NeuroCellPress Led by @ANeuroExplorer. Thank you to our co-authors: @auastro @Nhi_Thao_Tran @Forough_HaS @MKhajehnejad @BradynParker @AnjaliiBhat Ben Rollo, @adeelrazi Karl Friston.
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Great article from @ConversationUK about the potential of our technology and the important ethical considerations we are investigating along the way:
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Thanks for coming by to check out our lab :).
Australia is home to a flourishing startup scene. It's flush with companies focused on improving healthcare outcomes, not only for people in Australia, but everywhere in the world. #AWS cloud technologies are helping to accelerate both research and
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Cell grown in parallel to those on our #Maxwell MEA. The different colours are from different antibodies which bind to distinct types of cells. Here our #neurons form connections with each other across the well. Follow us for some more exciting updates in the future!#CorticalLabs
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The brain is still the most advanced computer on earth. Stunning.
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Thank you to the team at MaxWell @mxwbio for their continued support throughout our endeavours. We explain the use of their HD-MEA MaxOne in our latest publication:.
How cool is this?! . Our HD-MEA MaxOne system was used to train Human Brain Cells to play #Pong! . @ANeuroExplorer #poweredbymaxone #neuroscience.
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We're looking for a post-doc biologist to join the team and build the world's first wetware AGI. Apply here:
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Scientists have taught brain cells how to play the video game Pong - watch @ANeuroExplorer on Breakfast TV this morning
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@NeuroCellPress @ANeuroExplorer @auastro @Nhi_Thao_Tran @Forough_HaS @MKhajehnejad @BradynParker @AnjaliiBhat @adeelrazi @RitchieCentre @Hudson_Research @MonashMSE @monash @Turner @MonashNeurosci @MonashCCS @WCHN_UCL @uclnews @turnerinstitute @Mon_Bio_Imaging @CIFAR_News @UnimelbBME “DishBrain offers a simpler approach to test how the brain works and gain insights into debilitating conditions such as epilepsy and dementia,” says Dr Hon Weng Chong (@dr1337), Chief Executive Officer of Cortical Labs.
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Sprichst du Deutsch? Technology Review recently did an article on our work. Check it out here -
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Sharing our thoughts on today’s startup landscape and our take on what’s required from the startup community to alter the future for the better.
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One of the inspirations for us to try and tackle the game of Pong came from an experiment conducted at SIGGRAPH91 by Loren Carpenter. Watch the experiment here
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Listen to Hon & Andy talk about our work at Cortical Labs on The AI Show with John Koetsier -
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@hugobowne you can get more information from the preprint here - (as an aside, you don't necessarily need a reward function. Information surprise and its minimisation should suffice).
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This real-time visualisation is part of our suite of tools for researchers and developers to debug the activity of their neurons. Built entirely to run in the browser using #webgl. Sign up at to be notified of the beta.
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@NeuroCellPress @ANeuroExplorer @auastro @Nhi_Thao_Tran @Forough_HaS @MKhajehnejad @BradynParker @AnjaliiBhat @adeelrazi @RitchieCentre @Hudson_Research @MonashMSE @Monash @turner @MonashNeurosci @MonashCCS @WCHN_UCL @uclnews @turnerinstitute @Mon_Bio_Imaging @CIFAR_News @UnimelbBME @MonashInfotec.
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Although a little blurry, these cells are on a chip that is totally opaque and does not allow any light to transmit through it. So it has to be imaged in a slightly different way to most other conventional microscopy techniques.
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@claytonhm certainly watch this space - we've got more announcements coming in 2022 that will open up this technology.
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@Pdasv1YT7SkYzSC The same way you teach a child. No back propagation of the error applied there.
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