Launching Standard Machines
Advancement in AI relies on chips. Transformers won in part because they mapped well to GPUs. The frontier labs are now co-designing their own chips, trying to maximize intelligence-per-joule.
August 4, 2026 Advancement in AI relies on chips. Transformers won in part because they mapped well to GPUs. The frontier labs are now co-designing their own chips, trying to maximize intelligence-per-joule. But chip design has not gotten faster. It still takes years and hundreds of experts to bring a chip from architecture through tape-out. The models improve on a cadence of months; the silicon they run on improves on a cadence of years. Our goal as a company is to close that gap: to push the frontier of AI capability on chip design tasks, so that advanced chips can be taped out by small…
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