KiCad

Yeah.

You can feed Astra a circuit diagram and it will open KiCad, which is, you know, an open source software suite for designing printed circuit boards, and it will map out every component.

And draw the copper connections to create a layout that is ready for a factory floor.

So Astra is acting less like a creative concept artist and more like a highly caffeinated technical director who has flawlessly memorized every single API call for Unreal Engine and Blender.

It's a harness for making PCBs and schematics.

You can point at your local model, and it has a custom version of KiCad built into it.

Awesome.

Yeah.

Backplane, yeah.

It's an open source project.

It builds its own custom version of KiCad, again, open source project.

It's like, why would you make a whole new PCB CAD tool when there's an open source one out there? You can just take it, strap in what you need to have it totally interface with AI.

I've been on that point on our piano.

I remember our last conversation where, and it goes to the relationship we have with Ki-Kad, I think, because I remember you saying, that there wasn't this pressure on you to drop a quote-unquote hit.

You were frantically sending some of my piano ideas to them and they were like, bro, chill out.

You don't need to do all those things.

Yeah.

And, and rather, rather than just go into KiCad and, uh, you know-

Yeah

... choose the component because they're from JLC, they happen to, you know, the parts are from JLC.

Yeah, bullshit.

Okay, fine.

But [laughs] but the thing that's important to me, Dave, is KiCad was on the front page of their demos.

Right.

I actually reached out to someone on Upwork to build a circuit board for me.

What I found was that Astra was actually completely capable of doing a very complicated task, which is open up the software called KiCad and build a full circuit board for me, and it did it, and I think it worked.

I think it works.

I ran it through all the tests I can run it through before purchasing the build of it, and it really does seem to work.

Axios.

OpenAI says Astra can lay out a printed circuit board in KiCad, build a 3D city scene in Unity, create an animated automobile transmission in FreeCAD and Blender, and fill out a tax return draft from AW2.

End quote.

Jensen Huang also calls it AGI, but he calls everything AGI.

Axios.

OpenAI says Astra can lay out a printed circuit board in KiCad, build a 3D city scene in Unity, create an animated automobile transmission in FreeCAD and Blender, and fill out a tax return draft from a W-2.

In scientific work, the model helped improve a mathematical result on gaps between prime numbers and set new marks on several biology, chemistry, medical, and physics evaluations.

Jensen Huang also calls it AGI, but he calls everything AGI.

Hope folks like the model.

They show off a variety of cool demos and capabilities.

Acing the Financial Modeling World Cup and navigating spreadsheets at 4x human speed, doing PCB and KiCad, creating a 3D model of a car transmission, filling out a 1040 and so on.

They demo ordinary tasks.

So, you know, and I have tried so many different tests.

I've tried creating, working with some KiCad designers to build my own little SBC, you know, the most minimal form factor within space.

smallest amount of heat dispersion.

And we just can't come up with anything that can run for any amount of time that doesn't get heated up to the point where it would start causing cellular degradation.