Rivos made headlines in 2022 after Apple filed a trade secrets suit against it, which accused Rivos of hiring away dozens of Apple engineers and using confidential info […]
Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up
Meta, hell-bent on catching up to rivals in the generative AI space, is spending billions on its own AI efforts. A portion of those billions is going toward recruiting […]
Symbolica hopes to head off the AI arms race by betting on symbolic models
In February, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google‘s DeepMind AI research lab, warned that throwing increasing amounts of compute at the types of AI algorithms in wide use […]
Google announces Axion, its first custom Arm-based data center processor
Google Cloud on Tuesday joined AWS and Azure in announcing its first custom-built Arm processor, dubbed Axion. Based on Arm’s Neoverse 2 designs, Google says its Axion instances […]
OpenStack improves support for AI workloads
OpenStack allows enterprises to manage their own AWS-like private clouds on-premises. Even after 29 releases, it’s still among the most active open-source projects in the world and this […]
OpenAI expands its custom model training program
OpenAI is expanding a program, Custom Model, to help enterprise customers develop tailored generative AI models using its technology for specific use cases, domains and applications. Custom Model […]
SiMa.ai secures $70M funding to introduce a multimodal GenAI chip
SiMa.ai, a Silicon Valley-based startup producing embedded ML system-on-chip (SoC) platforms, today announced that it has raised a $70 million extension funding round as it plans to bring […]
Nvidia could be primed to be the next AWS
Nvidia and Amazon Web Services, the lucrative cloud arm of Amazon, have a surprising amount in common. For starters, their core businesses emerged from a happy accident. For […]
Astera Labs IPO will reveal how much investors want in on AI
While the technology world breathlessly awaits Reddit’s public debut, another company you might never have heard of is about to go public: Astera Labs. And it may be […]
Nvidia CEO wants enterprise to think ‘AI factory,’ not data center
In Monday’s keynote at Nvidia’s GTC 2024 event, CEO Jenson Huang kept repeating the phrase “AI factory.” “In the last Industrial Revolution, the raw material that went into […]