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A scanning electron microscope image of neurons on a chip.

Three long white boxes with wires and tech inside.

Brett Kagan smiling at the camera in a lab.

"We're looking to harness these cells for intelligence."

"It doesn't all have to be systems that consume huge amounts of power,"
he said.

A computer chip connected to neurons.

"We are building lentil-sized representations of the human brain from human stem cells,"
he said.

A foggy container with brown neurons inside.

A white box with cables and other machinery inside. There's three numbers on a screen on the front.

"We don't want to create any suffering in a dish."

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