Extropic releases Z1T, claiming up to 140x energy efficiency gains over GPUs
whurley · x · 2026-09-05
Extropic unveiled Z1T, its first family of transformer-like models built for sparse probabilistic hardware like its Z1 thermodynamic chip. The company claims up to 140x energy efficiency gains over GPUs and says the work reveals a new scaling law for sparse transformers, arguing algorithmic progress for thermodynamic computing is accelerating.
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