On: AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

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Because Openai and anthropic are not hardware companies. They outsource that to Broadcom and AWS' Annapurna labs.

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OpenAI and Anthropic are both designing ASICs.

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So they have decided that putting a small LLM on a phone would backfire because people would have a negative perception of their cloud models. Pretty sure AMD will use these taalas chips in data centers, not phones