Aitomatic is transforming the semiconductor industry with its Domain-Expert Agents (DXAs). Through its neurosymbolic AI technology, Aitomatic helps semiconductor companies capture and scale their deep domain expertise to enhance and transform operations.
THEIR GOAL
Make semiconductor AI development less complex and costly
Aitomatic saw the potential of AI to enhance semiconductor design and manufacturing. But general-purpose large language models (LLMs) weren’t equipped for the industry’s highly technical processes. The company set out to create an open-source, domain-specific LLM to accelerate AI development and reduce costs.
THEIR SOLUTION
The world’s first open-source semiconductor industry LLM, built on Llama
In collaboration with members of the AI Alliance, Aitomatic developed SemiKong, the world’s first open-source LLM designed specifically for the semiconductor industry. Using Llama 3.1 70B as its base, SemiKong delivers a specialized foundation to jumpstart AI solutions for everything from chip manufacturing to research and development.Llama’s open-source nature aligned with Aitomatic’s goal to create an industry-wide resource. The model provided a flexible, highly adaptable foundation for various semiconductor applications. Additionally, the permissive licensing allowed individual companies to customize solutions while maintaining total control and ownership.
THEIR APPROACH
Fine-tuning delivers unmatched performance
With Llama, Aitomatic could extensively customize the model to meet their needs. The company fine-tuned SemiKong in multiple stages to ensure it achieved high accuracy and relevancy. When evaluating SemiKong, Aitomatic found that it outperformed state-of-the-art generic closed-source LLMs in understanding and generating semiconductor content across criteria such as:
Clarity and Directness (C&D)
Practicality and Immediate Usability (PIU)
Efficiency and Brevity (E&B)
THEIR SUCCESS
Advances in chip design, manufacturing and testing
Aitomatic now offers a powerful, domain-specific model with Llama-enabled SemiKong. The LLM is helping the semiconductor industry build AI applications that can improve chip design, manufacturing and more. Overall, Aitomatic believes SemiKong will have a transformative impact.Projected results:
30% reduction in time-to-market for new chip designs
25% increase in first-time-right chip manufacturing
“Thanks to Llama’s flexible architecture and open-source foundation, we were able to build a customizable, semiconductor-specific language model that can reduce AI application development costs for companies across the sector.”
Christopher Nguyen, Aitomatic CEO
“Choosing Llama allowed us to collaborate rapidly on SemiKong. The open-source Llama toolchain and community provided excellent affordances for efficient fine-tuning. Thanks to that foundation, we could focus our domain expertise and technical resources on semiconductor-specific corpus construction and expert evaluation pipelines.”
Vinh Luong, Aitomatic Head of Open Source
“Llama’s openness and continual improvement enable me and fellow developers in the AI Alliance to rapidly build and enhance domain-specific foundation models for important industries such as semiconductor.”
William Nguyen, Aitomatic Senior Applied Scientist & SemiKong Lead Developer
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A semiconductor etching recipe optimizer powered by SemiKong speeds up process engineers’ analysis time.
Logical Flow and Coherence (LFC)
Expert-to-Expert Communication (EEC)
Use of Examples and Specificity (UES)
SemiKong outperforms state-of-the-art LLMs on semiconductor Q&A quality.
50% faster onboarding for semiconductor professionals
15% jump in patent filings from accelerated innovation
*All results are self-reported and not identifiably repeatable. Generally expected individual results will differ.
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