The editor of Downcodes learned that SemiKong, the world's first open source large-scale chip design model, was officially released! It is fine-tuned based on Llama3, and its performance surpasses the general large model. This is not only a huge leap in technology, but also marks a huge victory of the open source spirit in the semiconductor industry. The emergence of SemiKong heralds that the semiconductor industry worth US$500 billion will usher in earth-shaking changes in the next five years, and its influence is immeasurable.
SemiKong, the world's first open source large-scale chip design model, was officially released. It is fine-tuned based on Llama3, and its performance exceeds that of general-purpose large models. This is not only a breakthrough in technology, but also a victory for the open source spirit. It indicates that the US$500 billion semiconductor industry will usher in earth-shaking changes in the next five years.
The advent of SemiKong marks a solid step forward in the application of AI in the field of chip design. It was jointly created by Aitomatic and FPT Software. It was first unveiled at the Semicon West2024 conference and attracted widespread attention in the industry. This open source large model not only outperforms general-purpose large models in handling industry-specific tasks, but also achieves significant improvements in accuracy, relevance, and understanding of semiconductor processes.
Official website address: https://www.semikong.ai/
Project address: https://github.com/aitomatic/semikong
Industry leaders such as LeCun have forwarded the AI model of this open source chip design, and its code weights have been made public on Hugging Face and GitHub for developers around the world to download and use. This unprecedented opening up initiative is undoubtedly a bold attempt in the semiconductor industry, which is known for its competition and secrecy.
Christopher Nguyen, CEO of Aitomatic, said that the company chose open source because they believe that the benefits of sharing R&D results at the base layer far outweigh the value of confidentiality. They hope that through open source, they can stimulate more innovation and competition and promote the development of the entire industry.
The training process of the SemiKong model is divided into three stages: pre-training domain knowledge, self-fine-tuning and combined quantization. It has 8B of parameters and is specially trained with knowledge in the semiconductor field, providing chip companies with a powerful basic platform to help them build proprietary models suitable for their own needs.
The emergence of SemiKong will not only accelerate innovation in the semiconductor industry, but is also expected to reduce production costs. In the next few years, consumers may find more powerful smartphones, laptops and smart home devices entering the market at lower prices.
What is even more exciting is that the next version of SemiKong is planned to be launched in December this year, and the first process-specific model is expected to be released in September. This marks a new era for the semiconductor industry.
The birth of SemiKong is the result of the joint efforts of the Artificial Intelligence Alliance. As one of the leaders of AI Alliance, CEO Christopher Nguyen’s vision and spirit of open cooperation laid the foundation for the birth of this breakthrough achievement.
The industry speaks highly of SemiKong. Atsushi Suzuki, director of product life cycle management at the Tokyo Electronics and Artificial Intelligence Alliance, said that SemiKong represents an important step forward in the application of artificial intelligence in semiconductor manufacturing. Phong Nguyen, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of FPT Software, also expressed their belief that SemiKong will consolidate FPT Software’s leadership position in the global semiconductor industry.
SemiKong's open source provides valuable resources to developers around the world, will definitely accelerate the pace of innovation in chip design, and promote the vigorous development of the entire semiconductor industry. Let us wait and see and witness the future changes brought about by SemiKong!