Artificial Atlas

Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.

Frontier Computing

Wetware: lab-cultured neurons as a compute substrate; $10M pre-seed, Y Combinator S26.

HQ
London
Founded
2026
Web
frontier.site
Camps
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What it does

The most literal version of the substrate bet. Founder Michael Domarkas, 19, grows neural tissue on electrode arrays and trains it as a learning system; memory and compute sit in the same place, so there is no data-movement bottleneck, and biological neurons learn from far less data than a network does. The stated target is a 500-million-neuron cluster by the end of 2026, orders of magnitude beyond Cortical Labs' CL1. The claim is unproven at that scale; what exists is a pre-seed and a demo playing Frogger.

Camp membership over time

  1. 2026 – now
    Program search and other substrates
    Lab-grown neurons as a training substrate; a 500-million-neuron cluster planned for end of 2026

Capital

AmountKindValuationDateInvestorsSource
$10Mpre-seed Sep 2026 General Catalyst, LocalGlobe, Amino Collective, Kaya, Long Journey Ventures, Off Piste Capital, SVA Wowtale

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