Extropic exploits thermodynamics

XPU.pub covered Extropic a year ago, and the company continues to get media attention owing to its CEO's philosophy, not just the company's technical innovation. CEO Guillaume Verdon aka Based Beff Jezos is a proponent of e/acc, a philosophy that advocates for rapid technological advancement and rejects caution and regulation. Moreover, he emphasizes the importance of understanding life as a thermodynamic process. Those views informs Extropic. Planning to have hardware this year, the company is working on harnessing the power of out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics (what?) to redefine computation, potentially achieving greater power and efficiency than silicon-based computers.

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