[doix]

I was wondering if/when this would happen. My friends and I would discuss this at the pub all the time, "LLM2RTL" or take it a step further and do the the whole process "LLM2GDS".

I couldn't find much info here, but I'm guessing they've built tooling to automatically convert model weights to RTL and the reason it's such an old model is that it takes a long time tape a chip out (especially the first one). Would be interesting to know how much is automated and how much is handcrafted.

I think the "next big thing" with AI hardware will be when they switch from "digital" implementations of LLMs to "analogue". We already know that we can lose some bits of precision and still have a "workable" model. If/when folks figure the fine-tuning out, I'm guessing it'll be another order of magnitude improvement.