Etched @ UT Austin EER 1.518​

​Etched is building the world's first AI inference system purpose-built for transformers—delivering over 10x higher performance and dramatically lower cost and latency than a B200. With Etched ASICs, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs: real-time video generation models and extremely deep, parallel chain-of-thought reasoning agents.

Robert Wachen, Aryan Dua, Carter Wilcox, several Turing Scholar Alums, other Members of the Etched Team will be on campus this Wednesday evening. We will cover:

• ​​Frontier AI wars (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more)

• ​​Hardware x Software co-design to 10x GPU performance, and...

• ​​How to maximize your time before the AI singularity!
  
  Speakers include:

• ​Robert Wachen: Thiel Fellow. Co-Founder and President of Etched, Co-Founder of Prod (50B+ cohort valuation).

• ​Aryan Dua: MTS Inference. UT Austin Turing Scholar '26 ​

• ​Carter Wilcox: Head of Special Projects. Prev. Noam Shazeer's Chief of Staff.

• ​Several other Etched team members and Turing Scholar alums

​​​​Undergrads, grad/PhD students, and researchers across all engineering domains are welcome to join. Please RSVP as space and Allday Pizza are limited.

Engineering Education and Research Building, EER 1.518