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SambaNova Secures $1B to Scale Specialized AI Inference Infrastructure
AI hardware startup SambaNova Systems has raised $1 billion in its Series F round, valuing the company at $11 billion. The funding will secure its supply chain to meet heavy demand for its SN40L and SN50 chips, which spe...
Anthropic Explores Custom AI Chip Partnership with Samsung
Anthropic is in early-stage talks with Samsung to explore the design and production of its own custom AI chips, aiming to diversify its hardware stack. This move reflects a broader industry trend where major AI developer...
Specialized AI Hardware Startup Etched Secures Massive Funding and Sales Orders
AI chip startup Etched has reached a five-billion-dollar valuation and secured one billion dollars in contract orders for its specialized inference hardware. The company's 'frontier inference clusters' aim to run frontie...
Trump Administration Drafts Sweeping AI Chip Export Controls Requiring Government Approval
The Trump administration has reportedly drafted new regulations requiring U.S. government approval for all AI chip exports from companies like Nvidia and AMD to any destination outside the United States. The rules would...
MatX Secures $500M Series B to Challenge Nvidia with Next-Generation AI Training Chips
MatX, a chip startup founded by former Google TPU engineers, raised $500 million in Series B funding led by Jane Street and Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund. The company aims to develop processors that...
OpenAI Secures $10 Billion Multi-Year Compute Deal with AI Chipmaker Cerebras
OpenAI has signed a multi-year agreement worth over $10 billion with AI chipmaker Cerebras to deliver 750 megawatts of compute capacity from 2026 through 2028. The deal aims to provide faster, low-latency inference capab...
Nvidia Acquires AI Chip Startup Groq for $20 Billion to Consolidate Market Dominance
Nvidia is reportedly acquiring AI chip startup Groq for $20 billion, marking Nvidia's largest acquisition ever. Groq has developed LPU (language processing unit) chips that claim to run LLMs 10 times faster and using one...
Amazon in Talks for $10B Investment in OpenAI, Valuing Company Above $500B
Amazon is reportedly in early discussions to invest up to $10 billion in OpenAI, potentially valuing the AI lab at over $500 billion. The deal would involve OpenAI using Amazon's AI chips and cloud infrastructure, markin...
AWS Unveils Trainium3 AI Chip with 4x Performance Boost and Announces Nvidia-Compatible Trainium4
Amazon Web Services launched Trainium3, its third-generation AI training chip built on 3nm process technology, offering 4x performance improvement and 40% better energy efficiency compared to previous generation. The com...
Nvidia Acquires $5 Billion Intel Stake for Joint AI Chip Development Partnership
Nvidia has purchased a $5 billion stake in Intel, becoming one of its largest shareholders with 4% ownership. The partnership will focus on developing integrated CPU-GPU architectures for data centers and consumer PCs, c...