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by 535188B17C93743 68 days ago
I always wondered why the equivalent of integrated mining didn't apply to LLM inference... now it turns out it does and there's a company making it fast and robust!
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An ASIC for bitcoin mining makes more sense, in that the algorithm is basically “set.” For LLMs, it is hard while models are still developing.

But, sounds like Taalas is trying to strike an interesting balance where they can at least spin up ASICs for new models reasonably quickly with their modular design. It’s a really interesting bet, and might pay off.