Naveen Rao: 4D Computing, AI's Energy Wall & Beating Biology
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Naveen Rao, cofounder and CEO of Unconventional AI, which is an AI chip startup.
Best known for building and selling two deep tech companies. Naveen is kind of definitionally outlier founder. When I came there, we had about a $20,000,000 business and it was, you know, 7 or 800,000,000 when I left. I don't think you really understand something until you can build it. Just because something is tried does not mean it's wrong. I'm the opposite of an AI doomer. I think AI is the next evolution of humanity. We need innovation on hardware substrate to actually build true intelligence. Please
welcome Naveen Rao.
Hey, everyone. Great to be here. You know, switching gears a little bit to AI now, which you may have heard a little bit about. It's super exciting to be at this conference specifically because, as was said in the intro, I'm the opposite of a doomer. I think AI is one of the most transformational technologies that humanity's ever created, and will enable us to get to that next level of evolution, which I'm here for. And this is sort of the anti doomer conference, so let's go. So before we get going, I'll tell you a little bit about myself. You know, I It's kinda weird. I'm really right where I
I mean, that was extremely unexpected, I gotta say. That was pretty Let me let me start with actually probably the thing that's on everybody's mind, is to the extent that this works, Naveen, you probably saw Jensen earlier. Yep. There just needs to be an entire ecosystem of people that are beside you and around you, whether it's the fabs, packagers, etcetera, What does it take to get from this early version to something that sits in somebody's hand or that people use, and how do you see that path in terms of time and complexity? What does that look like?
Yeah. Timelines, we're within two years of of getting it to a full product. I mean, there's a lot
of what is the product?
Yeah. A Is
it VM that sits somewhere that you guys manage?
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