Unconventional AI

8 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 8, 2025 by Naveen Rao · said 9 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Dec 8, 2025 neutral
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Rao: Unconventional AI focuses on physics of learning, not traditional chips
“First off, it's not a chip company per se. Most of what we're doing is really kind of looking at first principles of how learning works.”
Naveen Rao Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 0:20 The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
Dec 8, 2025 bullish
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Rao: Over 40 years of academic research proves analog AI compute viability
“There's also 40 plus years of academic research, which is showing a lot of promise here. People have built different devices, albeit not in the latest technology with professional engineering teams, but they have built proofs of concept that actually show some…”
Naveen Rao Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 23:19 The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
Dec 8, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2028
Rao: Unconventional AI's first prototype will be the largest analog chip ever
“Like when we build this chip, our first prototype, it's going to be probably one of the larger, maybe the largest analog chip people have ever built, which is kind of weird.”
Naveen Rao Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 25:53 The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
Dec 8, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rao: Unconventional AI can build analog circuits isomorphic to intelligence
“So we believe we can find the right isomorphism in electrical circuits that can subserve intelligence.”
Naveen Rao Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 9:16 The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
Dec 8, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rao: Unconventional AI is building a substrate superior to matrix multiplication
“We are trying to build a better substrate than matrix multiply.”
Naveen Rao Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 20:46 The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
Dec 8, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rao: Unconventional AI will release open-source tools for its analog hardware
“And we will be releasing some open source and things around this to let people play around.”
Naveen Rao Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 16:12 The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
Dec 8, 2025 positive
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2028
Rao: TSMC will partner with Unconventional AI for chip manufacturing
“TSMC is absolutely going to be a partner forward, you know, met with them recently and, you know, we want to work closely with them to make sure we get what we need, get fast turnaround times to prototype and all of that.”
Naveen Rao Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 19:52 The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
Dec 8, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rao: Unconventional AI aims to build manufacturable analog chips within five years
“A couple of things that we set out to do when we built, we were starting this company was see if we can find a paradigm that's analogous to intelligence within five years. And then at the five year mark, we should be able to build something that's scalable fro…”
Naveen Rao Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 19:23 The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
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