by Karl Freund | Mar 21, 2026 | Video
Leonard, Karl, and Jim attended the AI event of the year, NVIDIA’s GTC 2026. This year, the agentic AI theme went into overdrive with its DeepSeek moment, OpenClaw. Or was it a ChatGPT moment? The trio unpacks a deluge of announcements from NVIDIA’s technology stack...
by Karl Freund | Dec 27, 2025 | Video
Silicon Futures is a neXt Curve reThink Podcast series on AI and semiconductor tech and the industry topics that matter. In this mega-catchup recap episode, Leonard and Karl talk about some of the top headlines of December 2025. Topics that mattered in the AI and...
by Karl Freund | Oct 21, 2025 | In the News
While Nvidia gets most of the press and market volume, there are three startups that have designed custom silicon and rack-scale infrastructure to compete with them head-on: Cerebras, Groq and Samba Nova. While Groq and Samba Nova seem to be getting some traction,...
by Karl Freund | Apr 29, 2025 | In the News
Meta held its first-ever event for AI developers, LlamaCon, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, where it announced that it was ready to compete with ChatGPT from OpenAI, as well as Google, AWS, and AI-as-a-service startups. This is really a big deal for Meta...
by Karl Freund | Mar 12, 2025 | In the News
Thanks to innovations like DeepSeek, training AI has become cheaper. However, inference is becoming more demanding as we ask AI to think harder before answering our questions. Nvidia, Groq, and Cerebras Systems (clients of Cambrian-AI Research) have all released...
