Etched @ MIT

​Prod is incredibly excited to welcome the Etched team back to MIT! ​Since dropping out 3 years ago, Gavin, Chris, and Robert have built one of the most impressive startups in the AI hardware space.

Join us to meet Rob, Chris, and other members of the Etched team. We will get the inside scoop on:

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

• ​Trillion-dollar infrastructure builds (and how AI infra works)

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

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

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

• ​Chris Zhu: Harvard Thiel Fellow. Co-Founder of Etched. Math & HPC researcher.

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

• ​Ryan Xiao: ASIC team @ Etched. Prev. MIT '25, EECS & AeroAstro.

• ​Quinn McIntyre: Current President of Prod; Hazy Research; Oasis lead.

​​​Undergrads, grad/PhD students, and researchers are all welcome to join for the agenda below. Please RSVP as space and pizza are limited.