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A pretty complete description of the what, why and how of Extropic
Trevor McCourt
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Trevor McCourt
@trevormccrt1
"Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish"
- Today will give you a tiny window into how I spent the last two years of my lifeHello Thermo World.
00:00 - There is absolutely no fundamental reason we build AI the way we do today. There certainly is a radically different approach that is orders of magnitude more energy efficient. I’m going to find it before I die
- Replying to @beffjezosI'm with you bro lets build the future ❤️
- SF is probably the only place a company like Extropic could be birthed. Thanks so much to our early investors for believing in us. I truly believe we are addressing a deep problem with the way computing is done. Love this country 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
- Wouldn’t it be funny if we are overestimating AI datacenter demand by 1000-10000x?Wouldn’t it be funny if we are overestimating AI datacenter demand by 10-20x?
- You might not realize it yet, but you all actually need what we are doing to work
- Tune in tomorrow for news on the inputs and outputsThermodynamic Intelligence: First Contact 10.29.25
00:00 - Replying to @liron1. You clearly don't know anything about probabilistic machine learning. That's ok; it's a graduate-level topic, and I wouldn't expect you to. 2. The 10,000x claim is actually ultra-specific and backed by a paper with a ~40-page appendix of machine learning and physics
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- Don’t sleep on this noise
If you care about AI then you need to know about the probabilistic computer chip being developed by @GillVerd (aka @beffjezos) and @TrevorMcCrt1 of @Extropic. The backstory is as fascinating as the technology itself. wired.com/story/thermody… - Since we’re posting fun stuff that was never intended to see the light of day: here’s the result of a rabbit hole where I found mechanical analogies to superconducting qubit designs. The Zero-Pi qubit analog involves differential gearboxes (like from an automotive drivetrain).
Fun little paper to appear tonight on the arXiv. How to do Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on digital Quantum Computers. As physics-based probabilistic ML accelerators are on the horizon, important to test how QC's could try to compete. Best way to predict future is to invent it.🙂 - Come work for us if you want to try and figure out how to re-build machine learning on top of an entirely new hardware primitive (EBM sampling instead of matmuls)The foundations have been laid. Now it's time to scale. Excited for the Thermodynamic Intelligence takeoff ahead.
