Startup Tapes Out Causal Physics AI Chip in Just 5 Months

Founder Naveen Rao's startup taped out a chip in just 5 months—the first large-scale demo of causal physical dynamics performing real computation—running AI models at under 900nJ. His company Unconventional AI open-sourced its coupled-oscillator Un-0 model and targets biological-level energy efficiency.

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