Guillaume Verdon is building a new kind of chip to accelerate AI. His alter ego wants to accelerate humanity itself.

This diagram illustrates a slit pore system, relevant to the study of nanoscale thermodynamics. Fluid particles (black dots) are confined within a slit pore, adjacent to a pressure reservoir filled ...

“The story of thermodynamic computing is kind of an exodus from ... hardware lab where a handful of engineers are staring at diagrams of the company’s first chip, fiddling with oscilloscopes ...