CHAPTER 215: PLUG AND PLAY

"Okay, what about the gloves?"

"The secret-sauce for the gloves is actually secret-sauce," said Nora, smiling.

"Sauce?" he asked, not she what she meant.

"Yes. The key ingredient needed to make the glove fabric is a special nanite solution that only we can create."

"Am I going to have to burn a lot of time and EP making this nanite solution?"

"No, with Rina’s help, I was able to create a special reactor core that can make the nanites. The reactor core can only be made using Genesis Heart, but then it can be used to make the nanites in volume."

"It’s unlikely that anyone would be able to recreate the nanites even if they got samples, but just to be sure, we created a special canister design that ensures any tampering will cause the nanites to disintegrate," added Madison.

"This is great. How long do you think it will take to complete the fabricator designs?"

"We’ll probably have them done in the next physical world week," said Rina.

That was fast. Really fast.

"Regarding the goggles. Will we still be dependent on other chip manufacturers? Or can we make everything ourselves?"

If he could eliminate all supply chain attacks, that would be best.

"We would need to license some tech, but those licenses are easy to obtain. So yes, we can make all the chips ourselves. In fact, if we do, we can combine everything into just five chips. The design will be even lighter and more energy efficient."

"Great. Let’s do that. Jensen already has several cleanroom facilities, so let’s plan to locate all the fabricators there."

Rina nodded. "I’ll get to work on a third fabricator design that can make the remaining chips."

He turned to Nora.

"What’s the status on the research facility?"

"When we told the city we were going to pay for the cleanup of the site, they practically threw building permits at us. Isabella’s companies have already started digging, and we expect the sub-basement and underground parking garage to be complete in the next few months."

"That’s great. I’m glad we didn’t need to make use of Isabella’s palm-greasing service."

Isabella could have bribed officials to make the permit process go faster, but Jack wanted to avoid that if possible.

Turning to Madison, he asked, "What about your work on open-source and competitive AI models? Do you have anything that can compete with the other AI companies?"

"I have models using the existing model architectures that are just as good as the other companies’ proprietary models. And I have models using a new architecture that are 50 percent better at half the size."

"Can the new models run on existing hardware, like those available in the Yoctoly and BallSoft clouds?"

"Yep. And since we didn’t have to pay a dime to create and train the models, we can sell the service at half the price of our competitors."

"How long do you think we would have before our competitors steal our models and sell them as if they were developed in-house?"

Madison grinned evilly. "Oh, they could try, but I found a way to watermark the models, so it’s impossible to hide who created the model. Ask it the right question and it will say who made it."

"Um, and what will the model claim?"

He wasn’t worried she’d trained the models to say his or her names, but he knew her sense of humor. He wouldn’t put it past her to have the model say something inappropriate.

"Radius 10K technologies."

The simulation holding the one hundred million Cerebras servers she used to train the AI models had a radius of 10 kilometers. So the name was appropriate.

"How long do you think it would take for our competitors to reverse-engineer the new AI model architecture and produce competing models of their own?"

"I’m not sure, but probably six months to a year. But that’s fine, because I have even better model architectures in the works. So, the day they release their new ’competitive’ models. Blam, we release something 50 percent better."

He liked that. Each time their competitor thought that had caught up, they would immediately find themselves eating dust yet again.

He looked at Rina. "Since you are working on a chip fabricator, can you make one that can make wafer-scale processors like Cerebras?"

"Yes, I think so. Do you want to compete with them?"

"No, but I want to build out our own data centers using our own server designs so we don’t have to rely on the cloud companies."

"I have a design that allows me to cram a thousand wafers into a single rack. I tabled it when I started work on the custom molecular processors, but I can resurrect it if you want. It would take a lot of work to design a fabricator for it, but you could just make it using Genesis Heart instead."

"How much work to design the fabricator?"

"I don’t know, possibly years. But a single cube has a billion cores. Just one rack would have the computing power of an entire data center. Granted, the power and cooling infrastructure fills a small room, but it’s still a hundred times smaller than a regular data center."

"How many of these would I need to match the computing power of Yoctoly or BallSoft?"

"Maybe one hundred? Certainly not much more than that."

He could just make them using Genesis Heart. The idea that he could compete with Yoctoly or BallSoft with just one hundred servers was insane. And instead of spending billions and billions of credits to build out his data centers, it would only cost him a few million credits.

"Okay. Please finalize that server design. We will have to rely on the cloud providers initially, but I want to migrate to our own servers as soon as possible. Can you design the server so it’s the size of a shipping container so we can just deliver it to a location, plug in the fiber, power, and cooling water lines and turn it on?"

"Sure. I can do that. I can also design the cooling infrastructure so you can deliver it in shipping container-sized pieces and just plug them together."

"Great. Please do that. Also, please send me the list of all the licenses we need to purchase for the goggle chips."

He needed to schedule another meeting with Dan at Summit Partners. Once Radius 10K was up and running and kicking the other AI companies into the dirt, he could start work on building out his own data centers.

He’d need them for hosting AI models, and eventually for hosting VR services.

And unfortunately, he was probably going to have to hire a CEO for this new company. Maybe Phineas could recommend someone.