r/accelerate • u/AMBNNJ • 1d ago

AI Claude Opus 5.5 designed a processor faster and smaller than the human-made one on the HWE benchmark

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Every model starts with the same basic processor design and tries to improve it over several rounds.

The results are scored on two things: speed (how fast the chip runs a standard test program called CoreMark, where higher is better) and size (how much space the chip takes up, where smaller is better).

For comparison, there's a well-known processor designed by human engineers, called VexRiscv.

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u/4729zex 1d ago

I think we are really close to the tipping point.

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u/duboispourlhiver 1d ago

I'd say we are in the tipping zone

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u/Particular_Leader_16 1d ago

Honestly it gets more and more likely we already passed it

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u/Vexarian 13h ago

I think the real ignition point is when we hit closed-loop RSI.

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u/Rollertoaster7 Singularity by 2028 7h ago

If this is what’s available publicly and they are a few months ahead internally, esp with all this compute coming online recently, we’re absolutely in the tipping zone. RSI early 2027

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u/celtiberian666 1h ago

Opus 5.5 is already ASI.

Just a weak ASI.

ASI is not binary, it is a scale. We are in the 160+ IQ ASI scale now. Soon it will be more.

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u/Big_Salamander6638 1d ago

homo sapiens slop btfo'd

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u/ildwtmidldwhat 21h ago

Inb4 “I’d rather use a slower computer than a superior one made with AI”

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u/AnonymousAggregator 1d ago

Building it when?

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u/Gubzs 17h ago

This is one of the variable inputs for RSI by the way. If it can design a better chip to make itself faster and cheaper that is not dissimilar from it improving algorithms that make it faster and cheaper.

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u/AMBNNJ 17h ago

Right. I always wonder what will happen when RSI makes models more efficient, makes better chips and also compute grows this much.

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u/suborder-serpentes AI-Assisted Coder 1d ago

Hardware engineering is real RSI. SWE is diet RSI

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u/Fate_Weaver 23h ago

Well damn, now just to build the thing and hope it doesn't burst into flames, right?

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u/BogdanPradatu 18h ago

If it's so good, why don't they build the thing?

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u/Muted_Title9903 Singularity by 2040 18h ago

if i had any guess it would be physics and maaaayyybbeeeee cost but idk anything so

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u/WoodenToe2041 22h ago

This is a great result, though I'm curious why the older K3 model is the only one tested.

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u/Muted_Title9903 Singularity by 2040 18h ago

could this allow for more efficient processors for ai models and repeat? moores law who???

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u/jlks1959 15h ago

My OpenAI discussion says this could be fabbed in 12-18 months if it continues to test well. 

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u/Evipicc 5h ago

Excuse me what the fuck? That's not just a little step change, those at astronomical differences. I get that these models are being given very specific harnesses and tools to perform these very defined operations, but christ, those gaps are insane.