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Anthropic Is Building Its Own Chip
- kiran-ravi 2mo agoQwen 3.8 came up this week with claims on being good for designing chips. so competition has to tighten.
- wifipunk 2mo agoI recall how there were custom chips made for LLaMA for that make it super fast which is cool but am I wrong for feeling like that would slow down the release schedule of new frontier models? Couldn't tell from the article if these would be ASICs or more general purpose.
- closetheloopdev 2mo agoASICs may be too slow to iterate. If we want to close the development loop faster, I think FPGAs are a way to do so. With everything moving so fast nowadays, by the time the ASICs are ready for production, they could be already outdated, so FPGAs could be a quick way to test some novel designs, with or without LLMs' help.
- RobertDeNiro 2mo agoThe tech that makes sense here is structured ASIC
- breuleux 2mo agoIf the ASIC runs a model 100x better (faster, cheaper, less energy, etc.), it will remain competitive on any task for which frontier models don't improve as quickly. Any task for which current models are "good enough" arguably fall in this category. We just need to cross a threshold in terms of how many such tasks there are and their economic value. Also worth pointing out is that there's probably a lot of latent uses of LLMs, currently unexplored, that would be enabled specifically by a very low latency. Right now, I'd feel comfortable taking the risk.
- Bluescreenbuddy 2mo agoTranslation: Anthropic is taking on more debt.
- otabdeveloper4 2mo agoThey should vibe code it and see how it goes.
- dormento 2mo agoGood, can they please make their own RAM as well and leave some for the little people?
- frays 2mo agoNow they can claim they're "full stack" like Google as another justification for their $1 trillion IPO.
- imagetic 2mo agoduh. they all are.
- m4rtink 2mo agoGood, another way they can waste more money & hopefully crash faster & harder.