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Setting AI in Stone
Big Tech

Setting AI in Stone

Etched raised at $10.3 billion for transformer-only chips. AMD just bought Taalas, which etches model weights into transistors. Hank Reed on an industry betting that AI has stopped moving.

Hank Reed
Etched Raised $300M at $10.3B for a Chip That Only Runs Transformers
Startups & Funding

Etched Raised $300M at $10.3B for a Chip That Only Runs Transformers

Etched closed a $300 million Series C at a $10.3 billion valuation, led by Sequoia with a16z and SK hynix. Its Sohu chip hardcodes the transformer architecture and claims a large inference speedup over Nvidia, with over $1 billion in signed contracts.

Jordan Beck