Co-founders of Ricursive Intelligence, Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, outline their thesis that AI should design the chips that train AI. They detail their three-phase plan to first accelerate chip design with AI tools 100,000x faster than current software, then become a 'design-less' platform for custom silicon, and finally achieve vertical integration by building their own chips and models.
This podcast episode explores two X moonshot projects aimed at revolutionizing computer chips. Project Positron focused on creating specialized chips for real-time AI inference, acting as 'brains for robots'. Project Bodger took a meta-approach, using AI and inverse design to automate the chip design process itself, aiming to overcome the limitations of Moore's Law.
Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini of Ricursive Intelligence discuss how their work on Google's AlphaChip, which used AI to design TPUs, is now being extended to automate the entire chip design process. They explain their vision for a 'designless' industry and a recursive self-improvement loop where AI designs better chips, which in turn accelerates AI development.
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, alongside Broadcom’s Hock Tan and Charlie Kawwas, announce a strategic partnership to co-design custom AI chips and vertically integrated systems. This collaboration aims to build the next generation of AI infrastructure, starting with a 10-gigawatt deployment, to meet the world's soaring demand for intelligence.