Breaking news for people who want to look hot, be young and not die. A few years ago, two college dropouts told me they could accelerate longevity by building a faster AI chip. I invested, and they just pulled it off.
What it means:
> 10x more throughput (tokens per second) for the same power footprint
> Dramatically lower operational costs for executing today’s frontier models
> Run far larger, more capable AI models within the same power and thermal budget, because a transformer-specific chip spends a fraction of the energy per token that a general-purpose GPU does
Rob and Gavin's approach resonated with me because solving aging is a gigantic combinatorial search problem. The chemical space of small, drug-like molecules has around 10^60 possibilities.
These compounds need to be mapped against a human proteome derived from 20,000 genes, including 1,600 transcription factors, and a dense web of interactions among them. The size of the combinatorial space is problematic. You need to identify which targets to modulate, within specific cellular lineages, at exact dosages, and in optimal temporal sequences. Traditional high precision physics simulations are too slow to brute force the problem. You can shortcut it with AI inference, using frontier neural networks as hyper fast surrogate models to predict biological interactions instantly. By hardwiring transformer logic into silicon, Etched offers the infrastructure needed to run these massive biological foundation models at scale. I'm surprised and impressed they were able to pull this off, and so quickly.
They already have $1B in orders
Ma grand sœur venait me déposer ses gosses littéralement sans me prévenir avant , elle les laissait à la porte , partait et disait que mes neveux étaient à la porte , une fois je lui ai dis je suis pas à la maison alors que j’étais là
I'm telling you guys, 50% of "old money" women are just wearing a natural textile sweater and enjoying some low cortisol leisure between whatever else it is they do:
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As I said last week, mobilize yourselves! Gather your hunters and hit the forest! These guys are not magicians. Go and search for your children!