@FutureJurvetson: This is bonkers. Unconventional AI’s first analog AI chip (using arrays of coupled resonators) generates an image with …
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Unconventional AI's first analog AI chip, using coupled resonators, generates an image with less than 900 nano joules, claiming a 1000x improvement in power efficiency for AI hardware.
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This is bonkers. Unconventional AI’s first analog AI chip (using arrays of coupled resonators) generates an image with a total energy less than 900 nano joules.
Analog AI is the next 1000x in power efficiency. Just like our brain.
Naveen Rao (@NaveenGRao): I made some public disclosures about our hardware at the @theallinpod conf this week and wanted to share the progress here. Earlier this summer we got hardware back! The execution was madness…we went from no team in Jan to a tape out in 5 months. AI enabled MUCH tighter loops of
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