Comment by nl

> Our second model, still based on Taalas’ first-generation silicon platform (HC1), will be a mid-sized reasoning LLM. It is expected in our labs this spring and will be integrated into our inference service shortly thereafter.

> Following this, a frontier LLM will be fabricated using our second-generation silicon platform (HC2). HC2 offers considerably higher density and even faster execution. Deployment is planned for winter.

From https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/

Personally I think anything around the level of Sonnet 4.5 is worth burning to silicon because agentic workflows work. There are plenty of places where spending $50,000 for that makes sense (I have no idea of the pricing though)