A research duo, once pitched to lead the Jeff Bezos-backed Project Prometheus, on Tuesday unveiled what they’ve built on their own: an AI model that can take in and produce information so vast that a lone computer might not handle it.
This new system is not built for understanding language. It is built for physics, said co-founders Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, in an exclusive interview ahead of Tuesday’s corporate launch.
The difference is that this new system is not built for understanding language. One example is in chip design. Accelerated Understanding believes that a more intrinsic grasp of physics is key to optimizing materials and temperatures for a chip’s performance, with less trial and error in a lab While various companies are using AI that programs computers and reasons through text for semiconductor applications.
Over dinner at an upscale restaurant in greater Los Angeles in late 2024, an investor and biotech entrepreneur named Vik Bajaj – who would go on to co-found Prometheus with Bezos – discussed a collaboration with Anandkumar and Jenik, according to meeting records seen by Reuters. Hired by the chip designer in 2018, Anandkumar led a team of scientists who pushed forward on how Nvidia’s graphics processing units, or GPUs, could be used for frontier AI.
It is built for physics, said co-founders Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, in an exclusive interview ahead of Tuesday’s corporate launch.
