AIHacker Noonabout 6 hours ago
Extropic Z1: Thermodynamic Chip, Not Quantum
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Extropic's Z1 is a thermodynamic sampling unit, not a quantum computer, using probabilistic p-bits that harness thermal noise. It runs at room temperature on standard CMOS processes. Extropic claims orders of magnitude better energy efficiency than GPUs for sampling tasks in generative AI and drug discovery.
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