I Wired 800,000 Living Neurons Into an LLM. Here’s What Actually Happened.

BioLLM is a SmolLM2-360M distilled from co-training on live human neurons via Cortical Labs’ CL1 biocomputer. The neurons modulate token selection through real-time spike responses, and the distillation filters for moments of genuine neural integration. It’s not conscious — the creator’s own consciousness framework says so — but the data shows biological substrates exhibit self-organizing network topology and measurable integration growth that no software RNG can replicate. The token wasn’t his idea. The model is free on Hugging Face. The autonomous agent is still running experiments.