π¨do you understand what just happened with NVIDIA RTX Spark..
Jensen Huang walked on stage and pulled an entire gaming PC out of his pocket.
NVIDIA merged the CPU, RTX GPU, AI hardware and up to 128GB of memory into one Windows-on-ARM superchip and called it the end of the PC as you know it.
> 20-core Grace CPU plus a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores - RTX 5070-tier graphics in a 14mm body.
> NVIDIA claims 100+ FPS at 1440p in 007 First Light and Forza Horizon 6, on battery.
> It runs a 120-billion-parameter AI model locally, no cloud needed.
> ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI and Microsoft already have 30+ laptops lined up for this fall.
The whole internet has two questions: is it real, and how much. Nobody's asking the third - what happens to every other chipmaker if it is.
It's fully open source. Built this solo over 6 months.
If you're an auditor, security researcher, or just curious β try it, break it, tell me what's wrong with it.
β https://t.co/bmaoIdVtDV
RT if you know someone in web3 security who should see this π
when i started building echo 2 years ago, i knew it had 95% chance of failing. to be honest, i couldnt really imagine any other outcome, but i thought at least it may be a noble failure worth attempting.
i certainly didn't think echo would be sold to coinbase, but, here we are: today coinbase bought echo for ~$375m.
echo will remain a standalone platform under its current brand for now, but we will integrate sonar's public sale product into coinbase, and likely introduce new ways for founders to access investors, and for investors to access opportunities into coinbase itself.
over the years i have chatted to brian a handful of times, and mostly to complain at him honestly. i have always respected how brian would listen to an outsider chat shit at him on the phone and take the feedback seriously. now, instead of complaining, i will have the opportunity try to do the work to make things better.
crypto itself has moved on a long way since we started working on echo. i guess partially this is because of the election result. but, i feel energised by a lot of the cool things being built in crypto again: hyperliquid, zcash, stablecoin supercyle, and so on.
feels like a good time to be on the field instead of an idiot with a twitter account yapping nonsense. well, i guess i still will be that.
anyway, job's not finished. onwards.
oh fuck yeah, before i go, the final season of up only (now "unc only" due to our severe old age) will commence when we figure out who the guests should be lol
cobber