Naveen Rao claims taped-out chip generated images using about 500 nano per image

What was said

"The chip is back in our lab, and we actually have results from it. So, these are the first ever images generated from such a computer. Now, great, cool. But does it do anything useful uh beyond just um uh images? you can actually do any kind of a task like sequence modeling or or language models. But the interesting thing here is it's only five 500 or so nano per image."

Naveen Rao said in a public talk on the All-In Podcast feed that his team taped out a chip design on 1 June, received the chip back in its lab, and generated images he described as a first for this kind of computer. He claimed it used about 500 nano of energy per image and said GPUs are on the order of millijoules, which he attributed to reduced data movement.