"In 2022, months before ChatGPT and years before Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex, Gavin Uberti, Robert Wachen, and Chris Zhu dropped out of Harvard to make a bet that looked, at the time, nearly irresponsible: they would build an entire inference system—new chips, boards, interconnects, racks—from scratch." "What began as a radical, contrarian wager has matured into a strong bet on the defining challenge of our era." "In a world where production is the product and the machine is the moat, we’re thrilled to partner with Etched." a16z's Sarah Wang and Raghu Raghuram on why AI inference may be the most consequential workload of our lifetime, and how @Etched is betting on it: https://www.a16z.news/p/how-to-win-the-largest-market-in(a16z)