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Biological Computing Co. Launches Mischief 1 Video Model
The Biological Computing Co. launched Mischief 1, an image-to-video model based on Wan 2.2 that the company says runs five times faster after optimization with principles measured in living neurons. The model is available on fal and OpenRou
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On October 30, The Biological Computing Co. put its Mischief 1 image-to-video model on fal and OpenRouter, making its neuron-derived optimization available to outside users. The San Francisco company says the model generates video five times faster than its underlying model while matching its quality. TBC calls it the first publicly available video model derived from measurements of living neurons.
Wan 2.2 with a neuron-derived software layer
Mischief 1 is built on Wan 2.2, an open-weight video model. TBC says it studied how living neurons process information, then translated computational principles from those experiments into proprietary software that improves existing models. The cells remain in the lab: the deployed product runs on standard AI hardware, and the added software accounts for less than 0.1% of the base model’s parameter count.
“We said we would take discoveries from living neurons all the way to a product anyone can use, and we did it faster than anyone expected,” said Alex Ksendzovsky, CEO and co-founder of TBC. The company says video is its first commercial application and that it is also exploring language models and physical AI.
Pricing varies by resolution
OpenRouter lists Mischief 1 at $0.005 per second for 480p video and $0.01 per second at 720p. The listing supports three- and five-second clips in a 16:9 aspect ratio, with a supplied image available as the starting frame. At the 480p rate, a five-second clip costs 2.5 cents; at 720p, the same duration costs five cents.
TBC’s launch announcement gives a half-cent-per-second price and says a five-second clip costs 2.5 cents, but does not specify a resolution alongside that figure. The marketplace listing makes the resolution distinction clearer: the higher-resolution option costs twice as much per second.
The fivefold speed claim lacks test details
TBC says Mischief 1 matches Wan 2.2’s quality while generating video five times faster and at lower cost. Its launch announcement does not provide the hardware, timing procedure, sample size or quality metric behind those comparisons, so readers cannot use the release to reproduce the performance claim.
The announcement names Wonder Studios as a production-workflow tester and quotes co-founder Justin Hackney describing the model as useful for trying more creative iterations within the same time and budget. It offers no test results or methodology from the studio. That endorsement gives a customer perspective, but does not independently establish the fivefold speed figure.
A public release follows TBC’s AWS agreement
The October launch broadens access beyond TBC’s earlier enterprise push. In September, the company announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services to bring its neuron-derived video model to market, with plans to run it on AWS Trainium, make it deployable through Amazon SageMaker AI and pursue distribution through AWS Marketplace.
Mischief 1 is now available through fal and OpenRouter; the AWS announcement described its enterprise distribution as work in progress. For now, the public product is a software optimization applied to Wan 2.2—not a computer containing living cells—and the fivefold speed improvement remains a company-reported comparison without test details in the launch announcement.