Gavin Uberti
Gavin Uberti is the co-founder and CEO of Etched, a startup building application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) specialized for transformer architecture inference. He co-designed the Sohu chip, which is engineered specifically for the matrix math calculations central to transformer models. Uberti previously built compilers and matmul kernels for OctoML and Apache TVM before leaving Harvard, where he was pursuing degrees in math and computer science.
“Google won't fail if TPUs fail. Meta won't fail if MTIA fails. Microsoft won't fail if Maya fails. And OpenAI won't fail if Jalapeño fails.”
Source→“Why is Colossus charging $12 an hour for Blackwells? It's because they're the only place you can buy 20,000 of them at once.”
Source→“I thought it was really cool months ago when Cursor published that they had a bunch of coding agents build an entire browser from scratch in a week. Totally nuts. And that will soon happen in under an hour.”
Source→“Previously ran startup incubator Prod which incubated Cursor.”
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