Although no one is sure whether the AI devices of the future are going to kill us, take our jobs or just help us with mundane tasks, one thing we can agree on is that they will need power and lots of it. That's why a number of companies have developed processors designed with processing tasks in mind, like ex-NASA engineer Daniel Goldin, who's created a 256-core chip that's helped him raise over 100 million in funding. Goldin knows his way around running a company too, since he holds the record as the longest running NASA administrator, with his tenure extending through much of the Shuttle era, between 1992 and 2001. He has brought that expertise and engineering background to bear on KnuPath, his monstrous chip design. This chip is being combined with another product known as KnuVerse, which we're told is a neural computing system capable of "military grade" voice recognition: no matter how loud the environment you're in, it will be able to understand you.