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Extropic Z1T Rewrites the Transformer for a Probabilistic Chip, but Its 100× Energy-Savings Claim Still Excludes Key Costs
Z1T maps part of the decoding workload onto Extropic’s Z1 probabilistic-bit chip using fixed four-way sparse projections, Dynamic Tanh, and convolutional attention. The code and one set of weights are public, but the energy-efficiency and throughput figures come primarily from hardware models rather than complete end-to-end measurements.