# Extropic AI hardware startup co-founded in 2022 by [[Guillaume Verdon]] (the quantum physicist behind the pseudonymous "Beff Jezos" persona and a co-founder of [[Effective Accelerationism]]) and [[Trevor McCourt]]. Extropic is building a "thermodynamic computing" platform — chips that compute with probabilistic bits rather than deterministic bits — pitched as a physics-native substrate for accelerating AI. The company raised a roughly $14.1M seed round that closed in late 2023, led by Kindred Ventures, with participation from HOF Capital, Julian Capital, Marque Ventures, OSS Capital, and Valor Equity Partners (the [[Elon Musk]]–adjacent firm run by Antonio Gracias). The venture operationalizes the e/acc thesis that maximizing usable energy and compute is the path to civilizational flourishing. ## See Also - [[Guillaume Verdon]] - [[Effective Accelerationism]] - [[Trevor McCourt]]