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Taalas chip ‘opens the way’ to reducing AI cost by 1000x

March 8, 2024

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In Q3, the company plans to tape out its first large language model chip and, in Q1 2025, intends to IMG_0296-150×150.webpmake it available to early customers.

Taalas has raised $50 million dollars over two rounds of funding led by Pierre Lamond (pictured right) and Quiet Capital.

“Commoditising AI requires a 1000x improvement in computational power and efficiency, a goal that is unattainable via the current incremental approaches,” says Taalas co-founder and CEO Ljubisa Bajic who also founded Tenstorrent, “the path forward is to realise that we should not be simulating intelligence on general purpose computers, but casting intelligence directly into silicon. Implementing deep learning models in silicon is the straightest path to sustainable AI.”

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