Ricursive Intelligence bets on AI-designed chips to solve the compute crisis

The founders were involved in a controversy around their previous technology.

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Google fired the internal employee who blew the whistle on this, and while Jeff Dean repeatedly defended the project, after reading all the complaints, I came to the conclusion that (like many other Google papers) the results were selectively reported in a way that made the paper sound better than it was.