Limitless Podcast - The Age of Inference: Etched Startup Proves the Next AI Hotspot
Episode Date: July 7, 2026Inference is becoming more important than pre-training in AI chips, including how pre-fill and decode work and why more compute is shifting toward serving models. Today we walk through Etche...d’s ASIC system for transformer inference, its claims around efficiency and throughput, and the tradeoff between specialization and general-purpose GPUs like NVIDIA’s. We also look at custom chip efforts from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Amazon, and argues that inference demand may keep growing as AI agents and long-running workloads expand.------🌌 LIMITLESS HQ ⬇️EMAIL US: info@limitless.fmNEWSLETTER: https://limitlessft.substack.com/FOLLOW ON X: https://x.com/LimitlessFTSPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/5oV29YUL8AzzwXkxEXlRMQAPPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/limitless-podcast/id1813210890RSS FEED: https://limitlessft.substack.com/------TIMESTAMPS0:00 Inference’s New Frontier2:14 Training Versus Inference5:19 Etched’s Bold Bet7:58 Building the Whole Rack10:48 TSMC and the Hard Problems13:29 Why Inference Matters14:59 The Transformer Risk17:02 OpenAI’s Jalapeno Chip18:59 Why Accelerators Keep Winning22:28 The Market Is Underpricing It23:10 NVIDIA Is Still in the Game24:56 Vertical Integration Wins------RESOURCESJosh: https://x.com/JoshKaleEjaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213------Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:https://www.bankless.com/disclosuresJosh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.
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So at Limelis, we are always in pursuit of Alpha, in pursuit of the thing that's around the corner, the interesting investment opportunity.
and I'm very excited to say that. We found a new one. And it comes in the form of this company named
etched. And it comes in the form factor of this thing called inference. Over the weekend, I know we spent
a lot of time while people were shooting off fireworks reading about this one small company that's
intention is to change the way that we look at inference forever. In fact, they're just a couple of
24-year-olds who have already dethroned Nvidia across a series of benchmarks. This is in the world of
inference that I think a lot of people aren't really paying too much attention to. A lot of people are
still focused on pre-training and they think Nvidia GPUs are the be-all end-all. But we've seen
this trend popping up of companies like Google building their custom accelerators, companies like
Amazon. And now we have a series of startups you might have heard like Cerebris or GROC, which
was acquired by Nvidia for a tremendous amount of money. Cerebris just went public a few weeks ago.
And there's a lot to unpack here, both as an economic opportunity, but also as just a really
cool opportunity for a new frontier in AI, which is this accelerated infringe chip architecture
that everyone seems to be gunning towards.
Now, in order to understand everything we're going to describe in this episode,
I think it's important to start off with what on earth is inference.
So typically, when you use a model, you write a prompt, you send that prompt,
and suddenly, magically, an answer appears from the LLM, whether you're using Claude or ChatGPT.
Now, what happens when you click Enter is the following.
Your prompt gets sent to a server.
A server rack has a bunch of different AI chips, commonly known as these GPUs.
That's what you associate and video with.
And what this GPU does is it firstly reads your entire prompt and processes it.
And this is known as something called pre-fell.
So the chip does it.
It reads your prompt, processes it.
And then the second thing that it does is it draws on memory that it has for your entire conversation,
the context that you have about you, the context that you gave it in previous prompts in that exact same conversation.
And then it starts generating a response to you, token by token, one at a time.
And this is something called decode.
So typically if you interact with AI chips, what's happening on the back end is this pre-fill and decode type process.
And that's what generates your answer at the end.
And that's effectively what inference is as an output.
So now when we're talking about chips in general, you think of Nvidia, you think of GPUs,
and you think, okay, well, these chips are primarily used for AI training.
And recently, as you just mentioned, Josh, a bunch of these different AI labs have announced that they're building their own AI chip.
And the question then becomes, what does this AI chip specifically optimize for?
And the answer is very simple. It's inference. And this has been getting more busy over the last
couple of months. OpenAI recently announced that they're building their own jalapeno chip.
You've got Anthropic that's rumored to be building their own in terms with Samsung.
You've got Cerebras and Groc, as you just mentioned. And now we have this new startup called Etched,
which is building a brand new chip which competes pretty effectively with Nvidia's ability to perform inference.
Yeah, there's a key difference between training and inference. Training is that thing that happens one time, and it normally takes months long. So when you hear a company is training the new GPT or training the new Claude model, that's what it is. It's using this pre-training. Infference is a totally different animal. And a really interesting thing that I learned about doing research about this is that the amount of inference, as of, I believe, two years ago was about one-third and it was two-thirds of pre-training. Now that's flipped to be two-thirds inference, one-third pre-training. And it's expected,
by the end of this year even, it's going to be heading towards 80%, which is a really interesting
stack considering that Nvidia holds roughly 75% of the total chip share, but they're not
actually optimized for this. And that is a signal because Nvidia's share has actually gone up
in terms of how many, what percentage of the AI world is using Nvidia GPUs? When the reality is,
is that they're not optimized for this type of inference. So as inference demands are going higher,
and video share is also going higher, but Nvidia chips are not optimized for this inference.
And that's a signal showing that it's really the only thing available.
No one's actually figured out how to build these custom chips at scale.
Therefore, the entire market must buy Nvidia chips.
But there's this new series of companies that's been sprouting up, like Edge that we're going to talk about,
that is going to solve this problem and their intention is to do so at a scale that's large enough to offset
this kind of asymmetry that we're seeing in the market.
Did you know that for the average frontier AILab, and it's funny that I say average
because there's like literally three of them.
Around 40 to 50% of their entire compute availability
is now put towards inference.
Just think about that for a second.
Like typically you'd think that you'd use the majority of that compute
to train the next big bad model,
the next Mito6 or whatever that might be,
but it's actually being used to serve up the model.
And that has happened exponentially more
as people start to spin up these AI agents
which work 24-7 for you.
So inference has become this super-important,
important thing, and optimizing the hardware around that has now become the new moat. Forget about
pre-training. It's all about inference. It's actually how you make smarter models. We talk about
Chinese AI models a lot on this show, and we think about the fact that they don't have
Nvidia GPU, so have they been able to train models that are 90% of their capability of some of these
frontier American models? It's because they've got really creative with inference. So inference is actually
the next sector, and it's not a moat that Nvidia has, as you mentioned. Josh, I think we need to get into
what some of these startups are doing
and why they're so competitive to Nvidia,
because if I'm listening to this, right,
I'm thinking Nvidia has like, what,
a $5.2 trillion market cap.
It's the most valuable company on earth.
How on earth can a rat-tag group
of Harvard dropouts actually beat these guys?
Well, it seems like it's impossible, right?
But then I look at the website of Esch,
and I listen to these guys talk,
and they're unbelievable.
And these are two 24-year-olds
that manage to somehow build a company
large enough to seriously threaten
a lot of these big incumbents.
And I think the idea of the company, the main ethos is baked around an idea that I actually
didn't even know was a reality. Because as we're talking about the demand and inference going up,
they referred to the Nvidia GPU. This is the godfather of AI. This is how everything is trained.
And typically, when Nvidia GPUs use inference, they're only achieving about 30 to 40% utilization,
which is crazy. There is 60 to 70% of the chip that's totally unused. And the market's just saying,
okay, well, I guess that's the best we have for today.
We're just going to go and train with NvidiaGPUs or serve inference.
And the reality is that there is a huge amount of improvements,
both in efficiency and throughput that you can create on these chips.
And that's what this team stood out to do.
They said, we're going to build a chip that is close to 100% efficient and utilization.
And they do that by doing a lot of really interesting things around thermals and around
vertical integration.
And that's kind of the idea for this company, Ech.
Now, they just came out of stealth.
They have been in business for about.
three years now, I believe this started in 2023. And you can imagine how difficult it would have been
in 2023 to convince a series of investors as what were they then, maybe 21 years old, that they need
to invest not just a couple million dollars, but a hundreds of millions of dollars in order to
actually make this company reality. Fast forward three years, turns out they've did it. They've
gotten over a billion dollars in customer contracts. They've raised over $800 million of funding.
And the early tests that they have on the server rack are showing that it has true, state of
output on latency, on power efficiency, and on inference workloads. And that is kind of the basis
of this company, who these people are and what they're working on right now. Now, I'm sure you're
listening to this and you're thinking, well, guys, like, this is a private company. I like,
I don't know how I could get access to it. And trust me, I feel your pain. There are actually
public ways that you could potentially get exposed to the success of what etch is building in a
bunch of the other companies that we're about to mention on this episode. We'll get to that in a bit.
But first, I want to talk about, like, what breakthroughs these key.
kids, and I literally mean that, they're 24 years old, made over the last three years that has
given them such an insane valuation when they haven't even released a proper product just
yet. And the answer is very simple. They haven't actually built a chip. In fact, they're not
building a chip. They're building an entire chip rack. And that's their whole thesis. What
they did was they looked at how inference worked. They looked at how Nvidia GPUs performed,
and they saw, as you just mentioned, that it only utilizes 30 to 40%. Imagine paying 50,000,
to $150,000 for this machine, and it only works 30 to 40% of its true capacity.
You'd be pretty annoyed at that ROI, right?
So they looked at the entire process and they thought, hmm, it's not just good enough to build
a good chip.
We have to build the entire system that can be placed inside a data center that allows for
80 to 90% inference utilization.
So here are the two things that they did.
Number one, they figured out this mind-blowing thing, how to use less voltage to get the same
smart answer that you get from Claude or a GPT, for example. And the way that they did this was they
redesigned the entire chip to base around the transformer architecture, which is what all LLMs
are based off of. Now, let's say in the future, you get an AI model that doesn't use the transformer
model. Well, unfortunately, you can't use that chip. So it's hyper-specialized. And what they were able to
achieve was a low voltage for this. Now, there's this equation, right? I'm not going to get too technical
on you, but it's voltage, or maybe it's power equals voltage squared. So the fact that they
halved the voltage for their chip means that they use, they require 75% less power to power
their chip. So the long story short is you need so much less energy to achieve the same amount
of smart answer that you get from your AI model. What does this mean in practice? Well, you save
tens to hundreds of millions of dollars or you can spit out way more tokens at per second,
which means that you can serve millions of more users,
which is exactly what Cerebra offers,
which is exactly what GROC offers,
but in a much more efficient way
without losing intelligence for your model.
Now, finally, the second thing that they achieved
was they looked at the memory of a chip,
and they were like, this is hugely inefficient.
And they redesigned it from scratch,
and they call it cluster scale memory.
And what this means is,
you know how you add memory to a chip typically?
Well, they also have a shared memory pool
between their different chips.
And the long story short,
what that means is they can move data super quickly in a second, which means that you get a faster answer.
It's all optimized completely around getting you a quicker answer that is of the same intelligence
and capability as your cloud or GPT.
This comes in the form of a very specific type of chip.
Like when we're talking about these and video chips, that's a GPU.
And then what we're talking about here is more of an ASIC.
It's something that is application specific and built specifically for this.
And what's funny is, as I was listening to one of the podcasts that they were discussing,
they referenced Bitcoin mining ASICs as one of the.
inspirations to prove that it was possible because Bitcoin mining A6 are very specific computers
for a very specific type of meth, and they're able to do so with so much more efficiency.
And when you can edge out that efficiency over the scale, the amount of tokens per second
you could generate at scale using these is tremendously higher.
So anyone who's looking at this on a performance per watt basis or performance per flop,
I guess you could say with these GPUs or these accelerated processors, it's going to be a financial
no-brainer to do this.
And as I was listening to the stories of this team, it was unbelievable.
So first of all, they're working with TSM already.
They managed to convince TSM that their technology was good enough to convince them to start to do with this run.
And they're in Bangalore.
And they are half of the team is there.
Half of the teams in the States.
They're working 12 hours a day over there.
Then they pass over the work to the U.S.
They're working 12-hour night shifts.
And they're going 24 hours a day.
And they finally get an opportunity to test this chip on TSMC.
And I remember the conversation that they were having is they're like, yeah, we called up TSMC.
It was the middle of the night.
and they were doing this kind of live feed, and you're looking at a chip,
and it either will light up green or red based on which wafer is good,
which wafer is bad.
The idea is you want the whole chip to light up green or most of them to light up green.
The entire thing lit up red.
Not a single one of them worked.
And the problem was that there was this, and this is a little technical,
so I'm just going to abbreviate here because I didn't fully understand myself.
But basically, there is these like clock signals that exist within it that need to be
synchronized.
And I didn't realize how difficult chips were EJS.
This is when I realized like, oh my God, this is like actually a really difficult
problem.
This is why no one's doing it.
They needed to align these two clock signals within 50 picoseconds.
And I'm like, okay, what's a picosecond?
That's 50 trillions of a second.
And light itself travels about one and a half centimeters during that time.
So they're really optimizing for these things at the speed of light.
And a couple of engineers actually quit.
They said it was impossible.
You will never be able to solve this.
And the team went off and solved it two weeks later.
And I think it's a testament to how one difficult the problem is, but two, how cracked this team is,
is that the fact that they're working 24 hours a day.
They are actually in the factory with half of the team.
They are back in the U.S. with the other half.
And they are solving these seemingly impossible problems that are enough to get people to actually quit.
It's a testament to how impressive they are and specifically what it takes.
When I'm thinking about this from a generalized investment angle, I'm like, okay, who else is in this game?
Google has their TPUs.
Amazon has their traneum chips.
I know for a fact they're not doing this.
They do not have people sleeping in the factory.
They do not have people like really heads down with their sole purpose of building these chips.
And one of the things I found interesting that they mentioned is when they're hiring people,
they're hiring people who are excited because this company lives or dies by these chips winning.
And a company like Google, in the case that the TPUs don't work out, the company's still fine.
So I really found that kind of an inspiring story on how impressive this team was and how difficult it really is to build these low voltage inference chips.
The question that then pops in my mind is, why are they going so hard at this?
Why do they believe so strongly that inferences the mode and why it's so important?
the answer can actually be revealed by the investors that they have on their cap table.
Brian Johnson, who is the health and longevity guy, right?
Like, what's he doing with this?
What's he doing on the cap table here?
You've got Jane Street, which is effectively a quant slash hedge fund, the best in the world.
And then you look at Peter Thiel, you look at a few others.
TSM, by the way, through their own venture fund, is also invested in this.
And you start to think, hmm, what might be the problem that they're solving?
And the answer is very simple.
It's everything.
If you have a faster chip that is spitting out tokens at lightning speed
but at the same amount of intelligence, guess what?
You can solve that research problem five times faster.
Guess what?
Oh, you're looking for a cure for this science problem or for this particular disease?
We can solve it faster because we spit out the most tokens per second without losing intelligence.
And that's the main pitch.
Brian Johnson says it here in his own tweet.
Breaking news for people who want to look hot, be young and not die.
A few years ago, two college dropouts told me that they could accelerate long.
longevity by building a faster AI chip. And that single sentence is their entire thesis. If they
build out the better machinery and chip architecture that allows you to go use this AI stuff much
quicker, you can end up beating the clods and GPs that run on current Nvidia GPUs if they
run on these GPUs because they can do the problem faster. And that's the main unlock here and
why this is so impressive, in my opinion. Yeah. Okay. So there is like this edge case that I think
I wasn't even accounting for really until we spoke about it earlier, EJS, which is that
they're making a very specific bet on this one specific architecture.
Transformer.
Yes, on the transformer architecture.
So since the beginning of time, basically since GPT2,
all of today's frontier models run on this thing called the Transformer architecture.
And it is a specific type of architecture.
You've probably heard of it, or we've talked about it on the show.
And it's basically this recursive learning thing where it goes through this, like,
a latent space and then it generates some words.
And it's the next token prediction.
It's kind of how we've always predicted next tokens.
This is entirely built upon the fact that that is going to continue.
because my understanding, and EGES, correct me if I'm wrong, but this hardware is specifically
built for that. And because it's specifically built for that architecture, the payoff is pretty high.
They can get maybe a 10 to up to 50 times multiple in terms of efficiency because they're hyper-specialized.
But that is under the assumption that this is going to continue to be the primary architecture
that his language models run on top of. In the case that that shifts, my understanding is that
this is actually hard-coded into the chips. They would need to rebuild a lot of the stack in order to
kind of solve for this. So is this an existence?
essential at risk? Or is this, like, how could you think about this? No, no, it's very accurate. So let's say
hypothetically a year from now, someone, let's say, Andre Carpathy discovers a brand new AI design
architecture for a chip, and it's not a transformer. Hey, look, I built this new AI model and it runs
on a different design than the transformer. Etched chips won't work anymore. Like if you run those
newer models on their chips. What they've done is they've hard-coded the computation graph,
which is basically the algorithm onto the silicon itself.
Now, if you look at an Ambidia GPU, yeah, it's really underutilized at 30 to 40%,
but you get the flexibility of being able to run whatever model architecture that you want in the future.
You can't do that with etch chips.
So if it does move away from the transformer architecture, they kind of need to redesign from
scratch.
You're going to have to, like, you know, that story you were telling them going to Bangal,
they need to redo that entire process all over again.
So it is a big bet, but maybe it might be the right way.
because other companies themselves, Josh, are also going down this route,
including a little-known company known as OpenAI.
They announced a few weeks ago that in partnership with Broadcom,
they're going to be building their own purpose-built LLM chip known as Halapeno.
And what was interesting about this announcement is the chip is optimized around,
you guessed it, inference, how to serve models and tokens faster.
But it's hyper-optimized around chat GPT specifically.
But there is a slight difference between the chip that they're building and what etched is building.
And it's the following, which is they didn't hard code the transformer architecture, which I thought was super interesting.
They allowed it to be general, but hyper-specialized for GPT specifically.
And you might wonder, like, why are they doing it and how are they doing it?
Well, the how that they're doing it is they're open-air.
They own the models.
They know how these models work and how to load tokens for it.
So they're like, okay, I know what kind of requests or prompts our users have for them.
we know how to process that.
We'll build a chip and rack system hyper-optimized for that.
But the why you're doing that is what I mentioned earlier,
which is if they can own the chip architecture
and serve chat cheptor for much cheaper and much faster,
they can solve problems.
And that ineffectively becomes the better model
if you compare it to a frontier air lab
that doesn't have their own AI chips.
And that's why I'm actually more bullish on a frontier model lab,
specifically, integrating vertically with their own chip versus etched,
who has the issue of they now need to either get acquired by a frontier AI lab to have that vertical integration
or they're ending up serving multiple labs where they can't hyper-specialize the inference workload.
And that's the main difference.
Yeah, and also what was really impressive is the speed in which they taped this thing out.
The norm is about one and a half to two years to make this happen.
They did this with the help of Broadcom in, I believe, yeah, nine months.
And the time it takes to have a baby, they birthed a jalapeno.
So that's pretty impressive, I will say.
And it's interesting, too, because this isn't the first accelerators.
or chip that they've had. They, I mean, they had this famous deal with Cerebrus, which is now
publicly traded. And Cerebus is basically playing in the same exact mode. It's like, hey, we,
we can serve tokens very quickly and very efficiently. And that's kind of what they've been using
Cerebus for, but it seems like that's not enough. And I think this is the general theme,
as we're kind of shifting over to looking at this through an investment lens, is that there is
no limit to the amount of inference capability that we can have right now. It seems like
any time that anyone comes up with any sort of efficiency improvement or any increase in
the amount of tokens that could serve per second, it just gets eaten up. And when you think about
the trends, this makes sense. It's like very economically viable to pay a huge premium for this
because when you think about the frontier models, every time what's one of the things that we
talk about? It's the duration of a task that it can do. So we went from being able to just type in and
you get a response in a couple seconds to a couple minutes to a couple hours. Now we're at days,
weeks, and even months for some tasks. And if you're running this tremendously difficult problem,
or if you're trying to solve, if you're trying to migrate a huge code base, or if you're
trying to do these really complicated technical tasks, compressing a few months or a few years
into half that time, into a third of that time, is not only a huge amount of savings,
but it's a huge amount of acceleration that you can get as a company in terms of how much
progress you can make quickly. And if you're a company like OpenAI, whose goal is to serve
these customers, being able to serve double the amount of customers during the same.
amount of time is a huge efficiency unlock. So having the ability to have this accelerated inference
ability where you can serve tokens quicker more efficiently, more effectively, seems like it's going
to be a very important trend that I don't see ending soon. So we saw the Cerebus chart and Cerebus actually
didn't do too well after the IPO. It wasn't super high. It hasn't been doing well. But the reality is,
does that feel right to you when you see this chart and you look at the demands that we're talking about?
Is Cerebrae's properly priced here? Down 35 and a half percent? No, because I think,
and it's the reason why we decided to make this episode.
I think a lot of people are unaware
that inference is actually the new mode
for how to train a better model,
but also how to optimize sending tokens to a lot of people.
I think the majority of people are stuck in the mindset
that you just use an LM, maybe like you use Google.
At most, you probably have less than a percentage
of people on the entire Earth that has spun up an agent
and runs it autonomously even for an hour.
And the trend is very clear.
you will have a bunch of these AI models working autonomously for you for hours or days at a time.
And guess what? It's going to burn a lot of tokens. And guess what? You want it to serve as many tokens as you can, as quickly as you can because you will beat the competition. You will get to the answer quicker.
And that means you can do more work, et cetera, et cetera, and solve all your problems. So the point is, if you want to achieve that, you need a different chip architecture completely. And Nvidia, the daddy of all companies that are building these GPU architectures hasn't figured out that,
problem right now. And so you have these companies like Cerebrus that are publicly traded. You have
these companies like MediaTech who is helping design some of these specific chips that are around
your friends. Yeah, now that's a chart, right? Like you're up 180% year to date. You've got Broadcom as
well. Let's take a look at Broadcom. Broadcom is the company that is actually doing a lot of design.
It's, look at this. It's basically up 10% year to date or less than 10% year to date. So I think that's
That's what it's up today.
Yeah.
Wait, really?
It's like today is the total or half of that today.
That's funny.
So the point I'm trying to make is, I think it's an asymmetric bet that is sitting in front of everyone's faces right now.
Everyone is obsessed with memory, the memory bottle of like, which is very much, you know, a big deal.
Everyone's looking at power.
They're like, we can't power these GPUs.
We can't power these data centers.
But a lot of people are forgetting that a bulk of profit margins that come to a ton of these AI labs,
when they eventually IPO is going to come from inference.
And Propick themselves is rumored to be.
become profitable this quarter, by the way, because of the profit margins that they're making
on inference specifically. So if you believe in agents, if you believe in autonomous work in the
future, you have to bet on inference chips. And these are the companies that are currently
available. Then you've got companies like etched, which hopefully comes out of, you know,
private placement soon. Yeah. Yeah, I will say, don't count out Nvidia either because it's not like
they're unaware that this has happened. In fact, they were ahead of the trend and they acquired that
little company named Grock for, what was it, $20 billion. $20 billion. Yeah. So the,
They are not in the dark about this.
InVosy is very smart.
Jensen is very clever.
He is fully aware of the situation at hand.
It's just it's difficult to move a giant company to do this at scale.
So you have to imagine that GROC acquisition was step one.
GROC was kind of similar to what all these other companies is doing
with the very specific accelerator chips that are meant for inference.
You have to imagine they're working now very hard to integrate those into their chips
to create this new line that allows for more optimized inference, less general purpose, more narrowband.
but these are the main players in the space.
And it's funny, it seems like everyone's kind of doing it to varying degrees.
We have Google has their TPUs that we talk about.
They have the Ironwoods.
Then we have Ace Amazon who has their tranium chips.
So there's a lot of large companies doing this, but it seems like the velocity of these
smaller ones, like the cerebris, like Groch, like etched, is really, they're moving
so quickly because they're small and nimble.
And you have to imagine that, like a company like etched, if they're not going to get
acquired, they're just going to continue to explode in terms of valuation so long as they
can make these at scale.
So my bet on etched is they're an amazing company,
but they will eventually get acquired by either an anthropic or an open AI or maybe even Google,
but one of the frontier labs will.
And the sole reason behind that is in order to build the best chip at inference,
you need to be one and the same with the actual model that is serving the tokens itself.
And their entire philosophy, the company, the founders have said on podcasts is they want to build
the best inference product.
and they need to be close to the model apps.
So that's my back.
In, let's say, under three years, they get acquired, if not sooner.
Vertical integration, baby.
I mean, that's the way it goes.
I always tell the end of time, refer to the Apple M-Series chips.
I'm like, this is how good it can be if you vertically integrate.
You can change the entire way that a product line works if you can figure out how to
vertically integrate these, and that's clearly what everyone is trying to do, open air with
their jalapeno.
Everyone has their own chip.
Everyone's got their own ASIC.
And I think with that, that is the inference episode.
That is kind of where we stand.
That is where the ball is rolling towards.
It is inference.
It is very fast compute is answering your questions and your very long questions as fast and efficiently as possible.
And at the end of the day, it's really just an efficiency thing.
It's like if you can get more performance per watt, if you could generate higher intelligence tokens, then you can basically win.
And there is no limit to the demand in which there is going to be over the next, I don't know how long in terms of generating tokens.
So yeah, very bullish on the company.
wish I could participate in ECH, but I can participate in some others, which I am strongly going to consider.
And yeah, I think that's the episode.
That's pretty much it.
I have placed personal bets accordingly across some of the companies that we're spoken about.
I wish I could have gotten access to ECH, but I did not.
These private companies, man.
I need to figure out how all these other podcasters do it, man.
Invest like the best.
They're just absolutely killing it.
We've got to get a limitless fund.
I know.
We need a limitless fund.
If anyone wants to help us raise that.
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That's it.
Yeah.
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