Extropic is not a normal startup. But then, these are hardly normal times.
The company is developing a radical new kind of computer chip that harnesses the thermodynamic fluctuations that naturally occur within electronic circuits—and which are normally a headache for engineers—using them to perform highly efficient calculations with probabilities.
This chip might well find some takers as AI giants search for ever more computer power to build AI models that perform artificial reasoning, and as we all worry about AI’s incredible energy demands.
Extropic has now shared more details of its probabilistic hardware with WIRED, as well as results that show it is on track to build something that could indeed
→ Continue reading at WIRED
