--- title: The path to ubiquitous AI | daily.dev description: Taalas, a hardware startup, argues that AI's path to ubiquity is blocked by high latency and cost, drawing a parallel to how ENIAC gave way to practical... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai-rr89jl4iq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The path to ubiquitous AI | daily.dev og:description: Taalas, a hardware startup, argues that AI's path to ubiquity is blocked by high latency and cost, drawing a parallel to how ENIAC gave way to practical... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai-rr89jl4iq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rr89jL4iQ.png og:image:alt: The path to ubiquitous AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The path to ubiquitous AI **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 7 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Taalas, a hardware startup, argues that AI's path to ubiquity is blocked by high latency and cost, drawing a parallel to how ENIAC gave way to practical computing. Their solution: custom silicon that hard-wires specific AI models directly into chips, merging storage and compute on a single die to eliminate the memory-compute bottleneck. Their first product is a silicon-hardwired Llama 3.1 8B achieving 17,000 tokens/sec per user — roughly 10x faster than state-of-the-art GPU solutions — at 20x lower build cost and 10x lower power consumption. Built by a 24-person team spending only $30M, the platform is now available as a chatbot demo and inference API. A mid-sized reasoning LLM on HC1 is expected in spring, with a frontier model on their second-gen HC2 platform planned for winter. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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