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A company bakes any model into custom silicon in two months

development2026-02-23

Claim

Taalas says it can bake any AI model into custom silicon within two months, with resulting hardcore models an order of magnitude faster and cheaper than software.

Reported metric: 2 months / 10x

Reporting date: 2026-02-23 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 23, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Taalas

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New silicon cuts cost per token 35-fold against Hopper

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Welcome to February 23, 2026

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A company bakes any model into custom silicon in two months
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Reporting date: 2026-02-23
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-23-models-baked-into-silicon-in-two-months
Claim: Taalas says it can bake any AI model into custom silicon within two months, with resulting hardcore models an order of magnitude faster and cheaper than software.
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- Welcome to February 23, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-23-2026
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