AI Agent Designs a RISC-V CPU Core From Scratch

In 2020 researchers fine-tuned a GPT-2 model to design fragments of logic circuits; in 2023 researchers used GPT-4 to help design an 8-bit processor with a novel instruction set; by 2024, a variety of LLMs could design and test chips with basic functionality, like dice rolls (though often these were flawed). Now Verkor. io, an AI chip design start-up, claims a bigger milestone: a RISC-V CPU core designed entirely by an agentic AI system.