The drive to discover the next big thing in AI has funded some pretty ambitious projects — but one company is taking it as a chance to rebuild computing architecture from the ground up. Led by Naveen Rao, formerly the head of AI at Databricks, Unconventional AI promises to make inference processing vastly more power efficient. The secret weapon: a new kind of oscillator-based computer architecture. On Thursday, the company released its first model AI — called Un0 — an image-generation system