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Published · transcript-backedReiner Pope: belief
26 Feb 2026 Cheeky Pint Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
“Our product is both training and inference, but I think the first sales will be an inference.”
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- Reiner Pope
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 26 Feb 2026
- Publisher
- Cheeky Pint
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…Is this for… Obviously in AI, there's training the models and then running the models' inference. Is this most interesting for inference, or is there any training angle? Incidentally, is it useful for trading, but you are trying to win inference, is that how you think about it? I think that's a reasonable way to look at it. I think the best inference chip today will be a really good training chip as well. Our product is both training and inference, but I think the first sales will be an inference. That's mostly just a market effect where it's easier to buy, it's not as big of a risk to go to buy an inference cluster as a training cluster. I think the product is really compelling for training as well. I think it should be the best training product. You guys just raised a big new round of financing.…
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