I am unreasonably excited about Taalas

I find myself unreasonably excited for the work that Taalas is doing. They&rsquo;re turning open weight models directly into ASICs (application specific integrated circuits) so that the chip essentially acts as the model - and only as the model. You get raw transistor switching speed within the model. Not only does this result in incredibly fast computation (~15k tokens a second for llama 8b!) but…