Frangipani
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M Anthony Lewis on LinkedIn: #tenns #mamba #brainchip
Yes to Edge AI! BrainChip has wracked up an impressive number of beyond state of the art models for edge inference. These models are based on our own TENNs…www.linkedin.com
Lakshmi Varshika Mirtinti is currently a PhD student at Drexel University (graduating in 2025) who - as we find out from her comment underneath our CTO’s post - was working with Akida for her PhD thesis and is now keen on applying for a job with our company. Nice!
But there is something else about their little dialogue that caught my eye:
Why was she expressing her interest in joining BrainChip’s Santa Clara team? Does that signify there is one?
Tony Lewis responded somewhat cryptically by saying “I am afraid the R&D team is located down south.”
He could have said “We don’t have a team in Santa Clara”, but he didn’t.
Not sure whether I am reading too much into his reply, but given that one of our former Perth Research Institute staff members - Vi Nguyen Thanh Le - has been based in Santa Clara for months now without ever updating her LinkedIn profile with regards to a new employer, could BrainChip either have placed a number of staff there with another company on a contract basis or possibly even have opened a small office in Silicon Valley?
Nothing but a wild idea so far - in case there is more to it regarding the latter, it will surely be featured in the upcoming podcast (even though I personally would expect them to announce such news through their social media channels at the time they eventuate.)
I just find the concrete reference to a BrainChip Santa Clara team odd, and our CTO’s reply struck me as somewhat ambiguous… Time will tell.