Hi All
I have been giving some thought to what could be driving interest in Brainchip other than all the information that is known and shared here on TSEx. One thing which I don’t think has raised much attention even here on TSEx is the stature of the new Chief Technology Officer Dr. M. Anthony Lewis (Tony). I have no doubt that TSEx regulars know all about him but for those who don’t or need a refresh the following is a snapshot of his CV from Wikipedia:
“M. Anthony Lewis is an American robotics researcher and currently serves as the Vice President of Hewlett-Packard and the head of Hewlett-Packard's Compute Lab for disruptive edge technologies. Formerly, he served as the Head of was the former Senior Director of Technology at Qualcomm Technologies and was the creator of Zeroth neural processing unit and its software API. He is past CEO of Iguana Robotics, a company specializing in the development of biomorphic robotics technologies.[1]Lewis received his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California under the guidance of Michael Arbib and George Bekey.
He has served on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Illinois and is currently on the faculty of the University of Arizona.
He is known for his work in evolutionary and biomorphic robotics, formation control of robotic systems, and investigations into the basis of movement control in humans and robots. He collaborated on a project to help paralyzed people, using studies of an eel's nerve circuitry.[2]In recent work, Lewis and colleagues have demonstrated a robot that claimed to be the most biologically accurate model of human locomotion to date.[3] This robotic uses a muscle architecture much like a human being, a simplified neural circuit meant to mimic neurons in the spinal cord, and sensory feedback mimicking the primary sensory pathways found in human.”
Now keeping this in mind anyone even the man in the street knows that the big story in 2023 and again in 2024 is Sam Altman and CHATGpt. The Sam Altman story of course includes his quest to make CHATGpt more user friendly from a power consumption perspective and the general media as well as financial media are awash with stories about his trillion dollar deals. CHATGpt, Large Language Models and GenAi are building to be the technology story of this decade perhaps century. If you search for the market size for LLMs there are numerous reports all largely in line and pushing the common theme of sensation growth through to 2030. Statista has this to say:
- The market size in the Natural Language Processing market is projected to reach US$29.19bn in 2024.
- The market size is expected to show an annual growth rate (CAGR 2024-2030) of 13.79%, resulting in a market volume of US$63.37bn by 2030.
- In global comparison, the largest market size will be in the United States (US$10,430.00m in 2024).
https://www.statista.com/outlook/tmo/artificial-intelligence/natural-language-processing/worldwide
Coming back to Dr. Lewis it is clear that he is extremely well known in the semiconductor industry and academic world and if you take the time to look on Google Scholar you will discover his academic contacts span the Globe including China.
So it is trite to say that when he posts on his LinkedIn account a lot of very intelligent well connected eyes are watching.
Putting the importance of Large Language Models together with Dr. Lewis’s reputation I do not feel I am going out on a limb to suggest that the following is potentially something of great significance and likely to have caused a number of very important players in academia and industry to sit up and take notice:
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I would also suggest that you do not need to be a rocket scientist to understand the significance of Dr. Lewis telling the world
that Brainchip’s technology is to his knowledge the
FIRST in the world to run tiny LLMs at the EDGE with very low power with
STATE OF THE ART (SOTA) performance.
The other significant feature of his post is that he is putting the world on notice that Brainchip is not satisfied with just the
Edge
but is also looking to scale up AKIDA technology into the data centre/Cloud for the same purpose.
I do not need to tell long term followers of AKIDA technology that it has been the case since day one that Peter van der Made and Anil Mankar have continuously stated that they chose to design in digital because it allowed AKIDA to be scaled for eventual data centre applications.
Of course, I may well be wrong, and this is just my anonymous opinion but the more I think about it the less I doubt my conclusion
that this is a significant driver of the current resurgence by Brainchip on the Australian, German and US markets.
My opinion only DYOR
Fact Finder
Hi FactFinder, while our new CTO Dr Tony Lewis would be one of the many factors, in the growing Global awareness of our Company, I don't think his comments, have been the catalyst here..
To be fair, he said to his knowledge, BrainChip "will" be the first, so it's something that hasn't been accomplished yet, going by his words and somewhere along the line, I gained the understanding that this was an intended capability, of the AKIDA 3.0 technology?
I understand
@Food4 thought's "nervous" feelings when the share price goes up (but of course
"I" never feel nervous
..).
Because many are wondering, is this a "genuine" move, in the share price.
I think, it was proved as genuine, when we had, what I believe was a massive short attack, on the Monday (which we "may" see the increase in reported figures soon..T+4) stinker of an overnight Global market performance and then on the Tuesday, a huge volume (the 100 miller?) Green day for us.
This reminded me, of the very strong buying and interest, of I think around mid '21, where the share price was moving strongly (it was around 50 cents) there was also an extremely bad overnight Global "hiccup" and the BRN share price just chugged along and even strengthened a little, on strong volume.
Those were very different days, but we also, had a lot less to offer then.
I still think, the
"Big" driver here is large accumulation by "someone" and then, all the tailwinds of the other factors, that increase interest in a Company, when it is seen as "attractive".
The Company, is gaining strength and momentum, in all areas and I think the current crop of shorters, "could" be in trouble.
In situations like this, they can literally become "booster" rockets.
We all know, the "rocket" analogy for the share price and it's actually a very good one, for stocks in general.
If you try to launch something, with not enough "genuine" power, you just get a spike and the rocket comes crashing back to Earth, because it just didn't have enough fuel (genuine buying interest and demand).
If there's enough thrust though and you can break into another "level" past what charters call "resistance" (which can be seen as "an" atmosphere) the rocket can maintain orbit there (although this orbit will slowly decay, without enough additional energy).
We've broken through one or 2 of these atmospheres already and it won't take too much more "energy" (investor interest) to ignite our boosters (shorters) to take us up another level, or 2.
Of course they, will be actively trying to sabotage the rocket, in flight.
The thing that helps them, is fear of loss of altitude.
That brings me back, to the "mystery" thrusters we have on board, which have so far countered, manipulation and doubt...