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Google DeepMind hires Rain AI engineer for growing "AI hardware design" team
Neuromorphic computing expert leaves Altman-backed startup for Google's AI lab
February 28, 2025 By Sebastian Moss Have your say
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Google DeepMind has hired a former Rain AI engineer with a background in neuromorphic computing for an AI hardware team.
Maxence Ernoult spent just over two years at Rain AI, a Sam Altman-backed neuromorphic chip startup that has a letter of intent from OpenAI. The hire has not been previously reported.
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Prior to his time working on in-memory computing at Rain, Ernoult worked at IBM and studied neuromorphic computing at Sorbonne Université.
Neuromorphic computing aims to mimic how the brain works, by using hardware and software that simulate the neural and synaptic structures and functions of the brain.
"Absolutely thrilled to announce that I'm starting next week as a senior research engineer at Google DeepMind in Albert Cohen's team dedicated to AI hardware design," Ernoult said in a LinkedIn post.
Cohen is a research scientist at Google DeepMind who in 2020 published research on Computing-In-Memory (CIM) architectures. "Memristor-based, non-von-Neumann architectures performing tensor operations directly in memory are a promising approach to address the ever-increasing demand for energy-efficient, high-throughput hardware accelerators for Machine Learning (ML) inference," the abstract states.
Across Google DeepMind, a number of researchers appear to be working on AI chips, under director Olivier Temam, who says that he is building the "hardware infrastructure for AGI." Temam previously co-led Google's Cloud Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) project for a year and created a TPU project for embedded and low-power applications.
TPUs are Google's broader AI chip family, used to train Gemini and available on its cloud service.
Temam is also part of DeepMind's AlphaChip effort, which aims to use AI to help design chip layouts. The company claims that it has used AlphaChip in the design of TPUs since 2020, as well as for its Axion Arm chips and other processors.
"We believe AlphaChip has the potential to optimize every stage of the chip design cycle, from computer architecture to manufacturing — and to transform chip design for custom hardware found in everyday devices such as smartphones, medical equipment, agricultural sensors, and more," Google said last year.
A job listing for a DeepMind chip design research engineer says that the company aims to "solve some of the most complex tasks in Chip Design (RTL generation, RTL verification, Logic Synthesis, Physical Design, PPA prediction." It adds: "As part of our team at Google DeepMind, you'll have opportunities to advance AI for Chip Design to enable breakthrough capabilities and pioneer next-generation products."
Whether the company is looking at neuromorphic hardware is unclear. This January, Google DeepMind researcher Cliff Young was a co-author on a Nature paper that laid out a roadmap to neuromorphic computing competing at scale with conventional approaches. Young was critical to the development of the TPU, and also designed much of D. E. Shaw Research's seminal Anton supercomputer.
Also pointing to DeepMind's interest in neuromorphic research is Yale Professor Priyadarshini Panda, a highly respected neuromorphic computing figure who leads the university's Intelligent Computing Lab. Prof. Panda became a visiting scholar to Google DeepMind last April.
Google DeepMind declined to comment on whether this hardware project is related to AlphaChip, TPUs, neuromorphic computing, or is a new initiative.
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Google DeepMind hires Rain AI engineer for growing "AI hardware design" team
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Professor Priyadarshini Panda, Yale University Intelligent Computing Lab.
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Here are some extracts from Priya's research developed with funding from DARPA which mention the use of SNN's.
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Priya was also on a panel organised in 2022 by Tata Consultancy "Neuromorphic Computing for Transformation of the Industrial Future".
Arpan Paul was on the same panel.
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If you Google "Temu shooter", Temu will have a few on sale.I am logged out for a holiday and see for the first time what TSE looks like without a login, so ads.
How do the rest of you cope with the shooting of F*Temu?
Keep up Manny , Cortex A confirmed . I myself have absolutely no doubt‘s that Arm’s Ethos U85 is Akida , as we are seeing far to many clues at this point in time .
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Embedded World 2023 / Remember the Embeddy Award / The below is from Sally Ward Foxton spilling the beans .
Anil and Rob both liked this LinkedIn post . Noting at the time Arm only had the Ethos U55 and U65
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Funny , Brainchip didn’t even mention that we were in the Arm booth doing joint demo’s .
All in my opinion .
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Dodgy , will all due respect and admiration , can I see your Ogre and raise you an Ogre ?
I know that you conversed with PVDM about Mac’s and that he told you that Akida does not perform Mac operations . However we continually see Brainchip documentation providing Mac performance . As such I don’t believe we can continue with this thought process .
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Does the below provide the feasible reason why we now continue to see Mac comparisons in all of Brainchip’s technical documentation ? Did the industry once accept that the multiplication was not considered a Mac , but have now unified to provide a level playing field for comparative reasons ?
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( Note to self … If Dodgy starts getting technical , I may need to resort to bluffing to win this hand . I know … )
Dodgy , all counter agruments must be supported with pretty pictures . Thanks .
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Much as I would like to be wrong, I don't agree that Ethos U85 contains Akida.
https://armkeil.blob.core.windows.n...rm-ethos-u-processor-series-product-brief.pdf
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Hi Doz,Dodgy , thanks for your reply , if I look at the above
256 GOPs is the same lowest as Akida
Mac’s …… in debate
SRAM / available
Interfaces 6 …. Our edge box has 5 I believe
External memory / available ( flash think Mercedes )
Cortex M & A compatibility with Akida
i’m not sure the above is concrete evidence that the Arm Ethos U85 is not Akida , unless I am not understanding your reasons correctly .
Hi Doz,
Ogres at 10 paces!
So to address your straw man argument - I have posted a few times about TENNs using MACs, just little ones, and mentioned that we could no longer rely on MACs as a guaranteed discriminator.
For example:
- #94,041
- Jan 5, 2025
- #83,783
- May 16, 2024
Of course, if your oger wishes to engage in combat blindfolded, so be it.
PS: Ditch the "respect and admiration" - we're here for afightdebate.
In all seriousness Dodgy , the Arm Ethos U85 due for release in 2025 sure has a lot of similarities as Brainchip Akida and for all shareholders sake it needs to be us .
The LDA Capital call pricing period, is from 7th of March until 30th of April (or until shares have been fully subscribed by LDA)..
So "We" are basically excluding any "surprise" of stellar March quarter results, from influencing the share price.
So for BrainChip to be doing it now, there must be a strategic reason, in anticipated news flow, from significant deals or partnerships (as per Bravo's intuition).
I believe, the release of the desire to move to the US, without anything else supporting it, on the same day as the LDA Capital call, may have been (or is in effect) a "Queen sacrifice" to the shorters and manipulators.
They would have gone hard on Thursday and then more so on Friday.
"A queen sacrifice happens when a player voluntarily lets the opponent capture their queen. The player offering the queen sacrifice does so to try to gain an advantage like more material, a better position, or checkmate"
Positive news now, will be potentially "troublesome" for them, but very beneficial, in the amplified effect, for BrainChip getting the best out of the LDA deal.
Maybe the King, won't get himself assassinated?..
"Come on God, do I seem bulletproof?.."
So, do we all agree that we need 5 dollars per share before the move to US? And best case scenario WITHOUT A RS??!!!
Thanks @MrRomper it might be the catalyst for me to start a SMSF.For those that hold shares through Australian Super - Members Direct I have taken this extract from Member Direct Investment Option (pg 13). Where it says the following:
Situations where we can transact on your account
We can dispose of your Member Direct investments or make a cash transfer between your Member Direct Cash account and your other AustralianSuper investment options without your consent in the following circumstance:
- if we have provided you with notice that a company or product issuer intends to delist from the ASX and you have not sold the relevant shares or units by the date specified in the notice,
Australian Super does allow the Members Direct option for International EFT's not individual companies.
Last time I looked there was over 30M BRN shares held by predominently retail with Australian Super. Shorters will wait for this dump before delisting.
Australian Super has done this to me on another issue with an ASX listed company. I had no warning and no chance to explore my options.
Definitely not financial advice.
Looks like the bow you are drawing, is getting smaller, DozHow many bullets have I left ?
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Uncanny in my opinion ….. where is Sally when I need her ?
As far as I'm aware, back in 2020, Akida did not run MACs. At the time, there was a lot of discussion about appropriate benchmarking yardsticks. It's all tied up in the word "Equivalent', ie, not actual MACs as far as Akida was concerned.Blindfolds off ….
Bravo , take a seat at the bar behind Dodgy and let me know what else he is holding …
Anil from Tech Field Day interview - November 2020 , long before TENN’s , talking Mac’s as I watch the sweat run down your brow .
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Hi 7fur7So, do we all agree that we need 5 dollars per share before the move to US? And best case scenario WITHOUT A RS??!!!
Just because Akida was in the same room as U85 doesn't mean anything happened, even if the lights were out.How many bullets have I left ?
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Uncanny in my opinion ….. where is Sally when I need her ?