Meta's Muse agent designed a RISC-V crypto SoC for about $2,000
A semiconductor expert posting as @bubbleboi, also a mascot for the Thru blockchain project, says he used only Meta's Muse AI agent to design a crypto-focused RISC-V SoC: running place-and-route through OpenROAD, generating the final GDS layout file normally sent to a fab, and building in support for common cryptographic algorithms including SHA-256/512, Keccak, Ed25519 and secp256k1. He describes the design as roughly 61,590 logic cells running at 100 MHz with about 20 milliwatts of power, passing DRC without electrical problems plus RISC-V ACT suites and 1.5 million Berkeley TestFloat vectors. The run consumed about 100 million tokens, a cost he estimates at roughly $2,000; next steps he lists are adding vector instructions, removing the third-party baseline core and porting the Thru blockchain natively with a tailored memory map, and he is still seeking multi-project wafer slots. The claims come from his own post and have not been independently verified.
If accurate, it suggests general-purpose AI agents can already carry part of a small chip's end-to-end design flow, though cost and results await independent replication.