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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
“The Frontier Labs have done a pretty good job of exploring it, but I think, as the hardware changes, the shape of the model should change for sure.”
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- Reiner Pope
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- 26 Feb 2026
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- Cheeky Pint
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…You think we have not fully explored model architecture space? The Frontier Labs have done a pretty good job of exploring it, but I think, as the hardware changes, the shape of the model should change for sure. Presumably you're not thinking like, yet another Frontier Lab pursuing the same architecture. You think there's probably off the wall looking architectures that will actually make a lot of—…
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