Comment by yorwba
7 hours ago
8 months ago, Taalas claimed https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/#:~:text=Upcomi... that "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."
Nothing was released in spring, and 2 months ago AMD announced their acquisition of Taalas. That doesn't exactly inspire confidence that their frontier LLM will arrive as promised.
> AMD announced their acquisition of Taalas. That doesn't exactly inspire confidence that their frontier LLM will arrive as promised.
Why not? AMDs chip design experience and production capacity are magnitudes larger than a small startup. Assuming that they acquired Taalas for their technology, I don't see a reason why they couldn't.