They [1] are [2].

8 months ago, Taalas claimed https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/#:~:text=Upcomi... that "Our second model, still based on Taalas’ first-generation silicon platform (HC1), will be a mid-sized reasoning LLM. It is expected in our labs this spring and will be integrated into our inference service shortly thereafter. Following this, a frontier LLM will be fabricated using our second-generation silicon platform (HC2). HC2 offers considerably higher density and even faster execution. Deployment is planned for winter."

Nothing was released in spring, and 2 months ago AMD announced their acquisition of Taalas. That doesn't exactly inspire confidence that their frontier LLM will arrive as promised.

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selcuka a day ago | parent [-]

> AMD announced their acquisition of Taalas. That doesn't exactly inspire confidence that their frontier LLM will arrive as promised.

Why not? AMDs chip design experience and production capacity are magnitudes larger than a small startup. Assuming that they acquired Taalas for their technology, I don't see a reason why they couldn't.

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mrheosuper 18 hours ago | parent [-]

why selling 1 high-efficiency AI chip when you can sell 10 low-efficiency GPU ?

	▲	selcuka 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> why selling 1 high-efficiency AI chip when you can sell 10 low-efficiency GPU ? Because you can't use the former for anything else? You will have to buy a new chip every time a new model is released. Not to mention that it will be much more expensive.

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slowin a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I think this company was recently acquired by AMD, so hopefully they'll start getting some this into production. I know OpenAI was working on model-on-a-chip too.