# Kevin Weil says AI chips are "primarily for email" for now

> Original title: "Primarily for email" is funny and somewhat true, but it won't be true for much longer

- Source: Kevin Weil
- Published: 2026-10-27T04:59:39.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/s4c80swqb8wua7c671b2cnyw5
- Original: https://x.com/kevinweil/status/2114945098052165906

## Summary

Kevin Weil of OpenAI posts "Primarily for email" is funny and somewhat true, but says it won't remain true for much longer. He replies to Arthur Macwaters, who describes how silicon chips are made and run AI models.

## Post

"Primarily for email" is funny and somewhat true, but it won't be true for much longer

## Quoted post @ArthurMacwaters

> It’s kinda crazy to me that we melt sand down, clean it to 99.99999% purity, literal wizards have to draw it slowly into an ingot, we cut it, inscribe a hundred billion little on/off switches on it, and when you run electric current through it you can do basic arithmetic, which when you do enough of it can do any math on the planet, and which describes reality well enough that we can teach it the ontological meaning of words and their distance from each other on a high-dimensional space, and if you ask, it can tell you what word comes next and that apparently is powerful enough that if you do it a hundred billion times it’s the smartest thing to ever exist 
> 
> oh yeah and we use this primarily for email

https://x.com/ArthurMacwaters/status/2114723535646236882