The future of AI chips (with Etched's Gavin Uberti) | Pioneers of AI
About Gavin
- Co-founder & CEO of Etched, building transformer-first AI chips to challenge NVIDIA
- Raised a $120M Series A in 2025 to bring Etched's systems to market
- World champion for mathematics in high school
- Developed AI model performance software at OctoML
- Guest lectured at Columbia University and TinyML
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Gavin Uberti thinks that his company Etched can be the “biggest company of all time.” His competitive advantage: faster, specialized AI chips that drive down the cost of inference. In this episode, host Rana el Kaliouby and Gavin explore how cheaper chips could democratize AI, the big bet he is making on transformer models, and how Etched is standing up to chip giant Nvidia.
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