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Founder & CEO @Extropic_AI
SF / Boston
Joined June 2009
3 years ago I would warn VCs that the market pull for AI is nearly infinite and we would run out of power. They would laugh. No one is laughing anymore. The need for more power-efficient compute has now become abundantly clear.
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Same will be true with AI automation.
CS is a decades long demonstration that the more you automate, the more problems you can solve, and therefore the more work there is to do. The builders' version of Jevons.
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Moravec's paradox: the world of atoms is orders of magnitude harder to solve for than the world of words / bits.
Peter Thiel famously quipped that we asked for flying cars and got 140 characters. While this app is hardly the most useless web 2.0 creation, this misallocation of capital is playing out in AI. People's lives would measurably be improved by application of these tools in the.
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Who's building this?.
If you’re building a hard tech company in 2025, you should prioritize getting a massive diagonal elevator platform installed in your HQ to make it easy to descend into the lower levels and access the underground portion of your facility.
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Weaponizing inertia of collective beliefs. IYKYK.
If @Extropic_AI @GillVerd Theory is correct, they are a decade ahead of any other AI hardware company. By the time the prove it, it'll take a while for competitors to adapt while everyone will want Extropic chips.
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Was great to go on @twistartups.
HUGE show coming up in just a few moments! @alex is chatting with another triumvirate of great founders! First, from Tennr, @TreyHolterman tells us about the rapid adoption of AI in the medical space. Then, @Extropic_AI's @gillverd tells us about building next-gen AI chips. .
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Full MLST conversation now available right here on X.
.@mjdramstead grills @GillVerd (AKA “Beff Jezos”) @BasedBeffJezos who's the founder of Thermodynamic computing startup @Extropic_AI. Guillaume shares his unique path – from dreaming about space travel as a kid to becoming a physicist, then working on quantum computing at Google,
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RT @MLStreetTalk: .@mjdramstead grills @GillVerd (AKA “Beff Jezos”) @BasedBeffJezos who's the founder of Thermodynamic computing startup @E….
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If there's any worse than no wifi it's slow intermittent wifi.
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America needs to 🏭/acc.
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Re: Landauer limit, for the bad faith idiots in the room.
@DaveShapi @Extropic_AI Moore's law was for deterministic compute. We have broken past Moore's wall. Arguably Landauer's limit is the only real limit, but pbits are basically fractional bits & you only need to pay the "KL edit distance" energetically, so that can be < ln2* kT since it can be <1 bit.
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The higher Bitcoin goes, the higher the bounty for achieving scalable fault-tolerant QC.
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$3B Seed is crazy work.
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Key piece of alpha there.
@traestephens Boston is the intellectual capital. Not just of the US but of the world.
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For folks in Detroit this week, I'll be @reindsummit tomorrow. Feel free to book something in cal.
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This will increase demand for energy massively in the long run.
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Fun interview with @mjdramstead @MLStreetTalk, for the more technically inclined. Full episode coming soon!.
Nature gives us probabilistic inference from stochastic-thermodynamic dynamics of populations of particles like electrons. We have created pbits from it by creating platforms where we control such physics. Started in superconductors, now in silicon.
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