AI Is Putting the Silicon Back in Silicon Valley

Two of these brave souls are Mike Gunter and Reiner Pope. They’ve founded a company, MatX, whose objective is to design silicon specifically for processing the data needed to fuel large language models. In case you’ve been hiding in a bunker for the past year and a half, LLMs are the basis for things such as OpenAI Inc.’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, and they require an obscene amount of very expensive chips to run. If a company were able to make cheaper, faster, AI-friendly chips, it would be poised to do very well in a world of ever-expanding AI software.