Tiny corp questions Etched's chip claims as valuation nears $21 billion

The AI inference sector could be getting its own version of the long-running rivalry between OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SpaceX’s Elon Musk after AI hardware and software startup tiny corp publicly questioned the credibility of the benchmarks behind the chip that inference rival Etched shipped to Jane Street on August 18. 

While Musk and Altman have publicly swung mud at each other, the accusations appear to have moved in only one direction in this inference drama between the operator of the tinygrad framework and the firm that raised $700 million at a roughly $21 billion valuation, as reported by Cryptopolitan. 

tiny corp: “Etched shipped a slogan”

tiny corp framed its latest criticism of Etched as a warning to buyers and investors, writing on X that it could not rule out that the firm led by CEO Gavin Uberti did not have a working chip or was simply propping up a poor one with “smoke and mirrors.” 

The tinygrad X account also conceded that “It’s possible they have a great chip and just very distasteful marketing.” 

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