Clive Chan

@itsclivetime

perplexity per picojoule @anthropicai // prev jalapeno @openai, dojo @tesla

California, USA

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Clive Chan
@itsclivetime
Jun 6
Personal update: I’ve decided to leave OpenAI. I’m proud to have been part of the custom chip program and grateful to everyone I got to build with and learn from along the way. The density of hardware talent on that team is extraordinary, and I don't think there's a better chip
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Clive Chan
@itsclivetime
Sep 2
a really cool perspective on “compilers 2.0” from a key jalapeno engineer
@cdleary
@cdleary
Sep 1
"openai engineer explains /why/ he didn't need to understand the kernel line by line" 🙃 we're doing compilers 2.0
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Compilers 2.0: AI as stochastic optimizer
There has been a lot of discussion following the presentation of the Jalapeño MLA kernel at HotChips and subsequent commentary by SemiAnalysis. As OpenAI’s hardware team, we just barely touched on...
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Clive Chan
@itsclivetime
Aug 30
This is really worth a read.
Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
Aug 29
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained
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Clive Chan
@itsclivetime
Aug 25
dylan using exclamation marks!! bullish
Dylan Patel
@dylan522p
Aug 25
OpenAI Jalapeno is spicy Usually first generation chips aren't competitive, but OpenAI is beating Nvidia Blackwell and even Rubin This is huge news! We got to go into OpenAI's lab to dissect their new chip and dive into the software, architecture, and performance Incredible work!
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Clive Chan
@itsclivetime
Aug 25
Jalapeno beats VR200 in A0 silicon with a vibe-ported, non-specdec implementation of DeepSeek 🌶️ 🌶️ And with much faster program execution than VR200, and with a B0 update landing imminently Congrats to the Jalapeno team!!!
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