Every successful tool is a bet on efficiency. A waterwheel grinds more grain per unit effort than a quern. A transistor switches more operations per watt than a vacuum tube. This is civilization's pattern: do more work with less energy.
For ten thousand years, efficiency meant physical work. Intellectual work rode the surplus. Better farming, manufacturing, transport. But the brain itself bottlenecked every intellectual task.
Compute changes this. For the first time, we can drive efficiency gains in intellectual work directly. Any repeatable job with measurable output has an efficiency ratio. Useful work divided by energy consumed. Intelligence per watt.
Humans perform tasks at some quality-weighted outcomes per kilowatt-hour. AI systems do the same jobs. We can measure both the same way. AI is crossing the human baseline. Domain after domain.
The world's hardest problems are information problems, and human intelligence is no longer the limit. The cost of intelligence per unit of energy is the limit. Every order of magnitude drop in cost expands the set of solvable problems.
Our mission at Wafer is to maximize intelligence per watt by using AI to optimize AI infrastructure, achieving thousands of times better energy and cost efficiency.
We want people to do their life's work here in pursuit of radical abundance. We believe cheap intelligence is the most essential piece of technology for a future of abundance. We will build the future with intelligence "too cheap to meter."
— The Wafer Team