Michael Domarkas is 19 and founded Frontier Computing in London. He has been culturing neuronal tissue since he was 17, the company is in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, and it has raised a $10 million pre-seed led by General Catalyst. The argument is that a GPU spends most of its energy moving data between memory and compute, where a neuron does both in the same place. The clip follows Cortical Labs' 2022 result of neurons in a dish learning Pong, and the 2,500x is measured against their CL1, which runs about 200,000 neurons. The 500 million-neuron cluster is a plan rather than a thing that exists.
today we're launching Frontier Computing (YC S26)
we grow neurons that colocate memory and compute, so you can more easily train ML models.
here's one of ours playing Frogger.
and we're building a 500M-neuron cluster. live EOY 2026.
that's 2,500x larger than the major biocompute systems available today
and we'll keep scaling until large model training on biocompute is widely accessible.
after all, human intelligence is built on a lipid, amino acid, glucose and vitamin cofactor soup: eating food is less costly than eating GPU compute
