🇺🇸 Tesla’s AI5 chip just taped out with production planned for 2027, while AI6 is already lined up for 2028.

These chips are aimed at powering self-driving, robots, and Tesla’s broader AI systems.

Designing chips years ahead… casual timeline.

>be John von Neumann
>born 1903 in Budapest, Hungary
>Jewish family, wealthy bankers
>age 6, divide 8-digit numbers in your head
>age 6, memorize entire phone books for fun
>age 8, fluent in ancient Greek

childhood:
>tutors brought in to keep up with you
>by 10, you're doing college-level math
>photographic memory
>read a page once, recite it years later
>everyone realizes: this isn't normal

1920s:
>go to university in Budapest
>also in Berlin
>also in Zurich
>simultaneously
>get a PhD in mathematics at 22
>also a degree in chemical engineering
>because why not

1926:
>work on quantum mechanics
>provide the mathematical foundations
>Heisenberg and Schrödinger had the ideas
>you make them rigorous
>you're 23

1928:
>invent game theory
>minimax theorem
>how to make optimal decisions when opponents are trying to beat you
>poker, war, economics
>all the same math
>publish it casually

1930:
>Princeton invites you to America
>you accept
>become the youngest professor at the Institute for Advanced Study
>your neighbor: Albert Einstein
>Einstein is considered the smartest
>people who know you both aren't sure

the legend grows:
>colleagues bring you problems they've worked on for months
>you solve them while they're still explaining
>someone describes a paper they're writing
>you complete their proof before they finish the sentence
>mathematicians start collecting "von Neumann stories"
>everyone has one

1930s:
>publish on ergodic theory, operator theory, lattice theory
>dozens of foundational papers
>each one would be a career for a normal person
>for you it's a Tuesday

the personality:
>not a hermit
>throw legendary parties
>drink heavily, tell dirty jokes
>drive terribly, crash cars constantly
>quote entire books from memory
>everyone loves you
>except your first wife

1937:
>become a U.S. citizen
>war is coming
>you know what's next

1943:
>join the Manhattan Project
>work on the implosion design for the atomic bomb
>calculate the explosive lenses needed
>your math helps build Fat Man
>the bomb that destroys Nagasaki

1945-1950:
>help design the hydrogen bomb
>even more destructive
>it's just math

meanwhile:
>realize computers are the future
>work on ENIAC, EDVAC
>write the "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC"
>describe how to store programs in memory
>the "von Neumann architecture"
>every computer since uses this
>every laptop, every phone, every server
>your architecture

1950s:
>work on automata theory
>self-replicating machines
>cellular automata
>basically predict nanotechnology and AI
>decades early

1955:
>diagnosed with bone cancer
>probably from radiation exposure at nuclear tests
>work until you can't
>Pentagon officials visit your hospital bed
>you're too valuable to stop consulting

February 1957:
>die at 53

what you left behind:
>quantum mechanics foundations
>game theory
>von Neumann architecture
>cellular automata
>nuclear weapons design
>contributions to economics, meteorology, biology
>more fields than most people know exist

Einstein had deeper intuition.
Gödel had purer logic.
nobody was faster than you.

the smartest people of the century
all agreed on one thing:
von Neumann was different.

the martian who landed in Princeton.
the man who thought faster than anyone alive.

and helped build both the computer and the bomb.

the 20th century's most powerful mind.