by Karl Freund | Aug 9, 2024 | In the News
The Silicon Valley startup has just raised an astonishing $640M in additional funding, and is valued at $2.8B. Have they captured AI Lightning in a bottle? Groq has announced a $640M Series D round at a valuation of $2.8B, led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners....
by Karl Freund | Jul 23, 2024 | In the News
Nvidia has fleshed out a complete software stack to ease custom model development and deployment for enterprises. Is this AI Nervana? And can AMD and Intel compete with this? In order for enterprises to adopt AI, its got to become a lot easier and more affordable....
by Karl Freund | Jul 1, 2024 | In the News
Qualcomm held a one day analyst event in San Diego updating us all on their AI research. Pretty amazing stuff, but the big news is yet to come with a new Oryon-based Snapdragon expected this Fall, and perhaps a new Cloud AI 100 next year. Qualcomm was pretty confident...
by Karl Freund | Jun 12, 2024 | In the News
While there isn’t a lot of new hardware (none!), Nvidia and Intel show off their muscles and ability to run new models at scale. Ok, here we go again. MLCommons has released new AI benchmarks, this time for training. And again. Nvidia runs all AI models better than...
by Karl Freund | Jun 3, 2024 | In the News
Nvidia broadens its reach to ensure that AI delivers on its promises. AMD is building faster chips, faster. The Market appears to prefers the former: Nvidia is up nearly 5%, while AMD is down ~2.5% today. Which is better? Well Elon Musk said Sunday on X that his xAI...
