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Thomas Ahle

Foundational AI lead, Normal Computing

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The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle

Thomas Ahle argues that hardware design is becoming an agentic, AI-assisted workflow from intent to tape-out, but correctness and verification remain the hard bottlenecks. The episode also explores thermodynamic computing, where chip noise is harnessed as computation, and the limits of LLMs for formal proof, benchmarking, and engineering trust.