Hala Point, the industry’s first 1.15 billion neuron neuromorphic system, represents humanity’s latest attempt to build intelligence from scratch. That’s not evolution; that’s a middle finger to Darwin delivered at the speed of light. Unlike the brute-force approach of GPUs—those electron-guzzling monsters that power your ChatGPT addiction—neuromorphic chips like Intel’s Loihi 2 operate on an event-driven basis. “What about the fact that arguably AI’s most popular application, the large language models (LLMs) powering apps like ChatGPT, won’t run on Hala Point, at least not yet?” Fair point. While everyone else is trying to make traditional computing faster—like putting racing stripes on a bulldozer—Intel’s building something fundamentally different.