Parasma
Overview
We're now backed by Y Combinator. Read the note About Parasma is a biological compute company.
Funding and backers
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Jun 2026
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News
Human brain cells do next-token prediction
Parasma launches to train brain cells for compute
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A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?
Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play a 90s video game. How long before we are all living in a sci-fi movie?
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Briefing Chat: 'Can it run Doom?' - why scientists got brain cells and a satellite to play the classic game
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science 13 March 2026
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Scientists Taught a Clump of Human Brain Cells to Play Doom
The internet has a long, rich history of getting the classic video game Doom to play on a wide variety of things, from pregnancy tests to a classic TI-84+ calculator that itself was powered by potatoes. It's an engineering challenge where people get to de
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
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Countries
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San Francisco
United States
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