Founder & CEO, Stealth Startup | AI Inference Chip Pioneer | NorthPole, TrueNorth | Science | 380+ Patents | $225M+ U.S. DoD Funding | Former IBM Fellow
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The goal of brainstorming is to generate a complete set of possibilities: zero false negatives and many false positives. The later stages eliminate the false positives while holding the false negatives at zero. modha.org/
Two errors in every decision: acting when one should not (commission, guilt); not acting when one should (omission, regret). Better evidence reduces both; the threshold trades one for the other. Make the first survivable, then reduce the second. modha.org/
Character, per Jon Iwata (@coastw): an enduring need met by a distinctive capability. Most companies write theirs down after they lose it; Iwata calls that refounding (@TheEconomist, Nov 2025). Better to write it at the founding. Ours: most from least, sustained, with integrity.
1/6 Exciting new results from @IBMResearch demonstrate that for a 3-billion parameter LLM, a compact 2U research prototype system using the IBM AIU NorthPole inference chip delivers an astounding 28,356 tokens/sec of system throughput and sub-1ms/token (per-user) latency.
6/6 For more information, see modha.org and see research.ibm.com/blog/northp…
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NorthPole, IBM’s new AI chip prototype, promises breakthrough performance and energy savings. cointelegraph.com/news/ibm-n…
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.@IBMResearch's new NorthPole chip could potentially bring more energy-efficient AI to the edge. research.ibm.com/blog/northp…
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IBM's NorthPole #chip runs AI-based image recognition 22 times faster than current chips @sciencemagazine doi.org/gswnqq techxplore.com/news/2023-10-…
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IBM researchers unveil a "brain-inspired" NorthPole chip prototype that removes the need to frequently access external memory and consumes vastly less power (@dcastelvecchi / Nature)
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IBM's new AI chip, NorthPole, is a groundbreaking processor inspired by the human brain.
It excels in tasks like image recognition, surpassing other AI chips in speed and energy efficiency.
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Microchip breakthrough may reshape the future of AI | IBM’s new NorthPole may enable smarter, more efficient, network-independent devices that may even help the U.S. win the microchip war against China. buff.ly/471hNgl by @deftechpat
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IBM's brain-inspired chip, NorthPole, could be the fastest at running AI yet - and it is 25 times more energy efficient than commercial chips too newscientist.com/article/239…
