person

Jim Keller
CEO of Tenstorrent; legendary chip architect
Chip architect who designed key components of AMD, Apple, and Tesla silicon. Now runs Tenstorrent, building open-architecture AI accelerators. Frames compute openness as a democratisation lever.
current CEO, Tenstorrent
Strategy positions
Distributed buildersendorses
Keep many independent actors; concentration is the bigger riskArgues open-architecture AI silicon is the counter to compute-oligopoly risk.
If we don't build open silicon, we've already lost the AI-governance fight.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.