DeepMind employee quits over fast AI progress, was working on new AI chips
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-26
A Google DeepMind employee resigned, saying his GDM team was building a new generation of chips to make AI much faster and cheaper — and he believes AI is already progressing too fast to contribute. The resharing author dismisses it as the age of "performative quitting," welcoming cheaper inference and DeepMind's Nobel-laureate bioscience work instead. The episode also confirms DeepMind's in-house inference chip effort.
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