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Extropic

Thermodynamic computing hardware and software developer

extropic.ai

Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 42–50
Industry: Semiconductors

Last updated October 1

Latest news about Extropic

In short: Extropic advanced thermodynamic computing, securing $75M in US CHIPS funding and unveiling new probabilistic chips.

Company announcements

October 1 Extropic

Extropic releases first thermodynamic recursive intelligence research results

Extropic post-trains Qwen3.6-35B to reproduce classic Boltzmann machine experiments, tripling performance and competing with larger frontier models.

September 5 Extropic

Extropic introduces Z1T models for its probabilistic hardware

Z1T offers over 100x energy efficiency gains versus GPUs by adapting transformer architectures to sparse, thermodynamic chips and open-sourcing weights.

August 4 Extropic

Extropic unveils scaling from one to one billion pbits

Torx and Thermalizers are open sourced, Z1 chip revealed with 269k pbits, early access planned in 2027.

July 29 Extropic

Extropic signs $75M CHIPS letter with US Commerce Department

Planned CHIPS R&D funding to scale thermodynamic sampling units for AI workloads and fabricate at American foundry.

Media coverage

August 3 Interesting Engineering

Thermodynamic smart chips win $75M deal to beat GPUs and drastically slash power use

The US' thermodynamic smart chips could cut power use for generative AI and move production to American semiconductor fabs.

July 29 TMCnet

Extropic Signs $75 Million Letter of Intent with U.S. Department of Commerce to Scale and Onshore Thermodynamic Computing

Planned CHIPS R&D funding to scale Extropic's Thermodynamic Sampling Units for AI workloads and fabricate them at an American foundry. SAN FRANCISCO and WALTHAM, Mass...

November 16, 2025 Geeky Gadgets

Thermodynamic Computing Claims 10,000x AI Efficiency : Is AGI Edging Closer?

Can thermal noise become computing fuel for AGI, Inside Extropic's P-bit chips, early tests hint at efficiency gains but algorithms must catch up.

November 2, 2025 Techmeme

Extropic, which says its chips using probabilistic bits can be 10,000x more energy efficient than current AI chips, shares its first chip with some AI labs

Will Knight / Wired: Extropic, which says its chips using probabilistic bits can be 10,000x more energy efficient than current AI chips, shares its first...

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