Ex-Google AI researchers founded Extropic. Are they onto something revolutionary?

Extropic believes our current digital computers are inefficient for the demands of generative AI. Their new computer chips aim to harness the laws of physics for more efficient computation in this domain. If successful, this could revolutionize generative AI, unlocking new and powerful applications.

  • Extropic's technology is based on the idea of out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics. This means that it harnesses the power of systems that are not in a state of equilibrium.
  • Extropic's chips use analog circuits to perform computations, unlike traditional digital computers. This allows them to more efficiently handle the complex probability distributions required for generative AI.
  • Extropic devices are currently a type of probabilistic AI accelerator that utilizes superconducting qubits.