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The Founders Journey ft. Raymond Chik of Untether AI
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In their words
I always tell people that you want to surround yourself with the right people. There's a reason why the three of us started the company: all three of us are kind of different shapes and sizes, meaning we all have a different specific area of specialty.
You have to be five times, ten times better than the incumbent, and that's where we're at.
When I heard about this opportunity, for some reason I got excited. I was still young. I'll jump into it. If it fails, it fails. But actually it worked out.
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Quick answers
What is Raymond Chik known for?
Co-founding Untether AI in 2018, a Toronto startup building energy-efficient at-memory AI inference chips designed to rival Nvidia GPUs. He led it as a co-founder and later chaired its board.
What happened to Untether AI?
It wound down in mid-2025. AMD acqui-hired its engineering team in June 2025, but did not acquire the company's chips, IP or products, and its SpeedAI chips and imAIgine SDK were discontinued.
What is Raymond Chik doing now?
He is co-founder and Board Chair of Hepzibah, a full-stack AI-compute architecture startup, and remains active as a semiconductor entrepreneur and angel investor.