Ziyad Basheer

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Today we’re launching the OpenAI Deployment Company to help businesses build and deploy AI. It's majority-owned and controlled by OpenAI. It brings together 19 leading investment firms, consultancies, and system integrators to help organizations deploy frontier AI to production for business impact. openai.com/index/openai-l…

We’re building an LLM chip that delivers much higher throughput than any other chip while also achieving the lowest latency. We call it the MatX One. The MatX One chip is based on a splittable systolic array, which has the energy and area efficiency that large systolic arrays are famous for, while also getting high utilization on smaller matrices with flexible shapes. The chip combines the low latency of SRAM-first designs with the long-context support of HBM. These elements, plus a fresh take on numerics, deliver higher throughput on LLMs than any announced system, while simultaneously matching the latency of SRAM-first designs. Higher throughput and lower latency give you smarter and faster models for your subscription dollar. We’ve raised a $500M Series B to wrap up development and quickly scale manufacturing, with tapeout in under a year. The round was led by Jane Street, one of the most tech-savvy Wall Street firms, and Situational Awareness LP, whose founder @leopoldasch wrote the definitive memo on AGI. Participants include @sparkcapital, @danielgross and @natfriedman’s fund, @patrickc and @collision, @TriatomicCap, @HarpoonVentures, @karpathy, @dwarkesh_sp, and others. We’re also welcoming investors across the supply chain, including Marvell and Alchip. @MikeGunter_ and I started MatX because we felt that the best chip for LLMs should be designed from first principles with a deep understanding of what LLMs need and how they will evolve. We are willing to give up on small-model performance, low-volume workloads, and even ease of programming to deliver on such a chip. We’re now a 100-person team with people who think about everything from learning rate schedules, to Swing Modulo Scheduling, to guard/round/sticky bits, to blind-mated connections—all in the same building. If you’d like to help us architect, design, and deploy many generations of chips in large volume, consider joining us.

My latest for @TheHubCanada CANADIANS MUST OPEN THEIR EYES TO OUR GROWING CULTURE OF CORRUPTION. “Across all these examples, an unmistakable pattern emerges: the erosion of restraint. Canada has built a system where every pressure is answered with a new program, a new grant, a new intervention, a new procedure. Complexity accumulates. Discretion expands. Those with influence use it. But the public feels the consequences. Infrastructure is slowly built that costs far more than it should. Housing approvals take years instead of months. Businesses wait on permits rather than customers. A younger generation feels downwardly mobile. The population has a growing sense that government money is being used to manage political interests rather than create opportunity. Corruption in Canada is not a handful of scandals. It is now a culture. A system of indulgence and avoidance that rewards extraction because no one is willing to confront the incentives that sustain it.”