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Sorry, couldn't resist some cherry picking on that...

It unveiled plans this week to build a chip that can compute likelihoods.

Unprecedented.

Over time, Lyric plans to step out from this military work and offer its wares to corporations working with large sets of data.

Very humanitarian of them.

Crucially, Lyric claims it can perform these calculations using just a handful of the transistors inside a chip rather than the hundreds it takes today because it has created algorithms and chip designs geared toward probability.

On a positive note, it will probably work. However, I can have a handful of transistors just by opening up any of the computers at my apartment and removing the cooling. A few simple gestures, and I'd have a hand full of transistors inside a chip. As for the algorithms, I will wait in breathless anticipation.

“To take it to the next level requires an investment that reaches into the hundreds of millions of dollars, and it’s very risky and very hard to raise money for that sort of play right now,” Mr. Stokes said.

Is it now?