Sam Altman was reinstated as OpenAI CEO last month soon after being fired, but had the company continued to develop ChatGPT without him, he still would have stood to gain. During Altman’s tenure as CEO, OpenAI had signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on AI chips from …
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When president Joe Biden traveled to Vietnam last month, he was accompanied by a coterie of leaders from top US technology companies. He and the executives from Google, Intel, Boeing, and chipmaker GlobalFoundries were all on the same mission: to find a new partner to help produce some of America’s …
Read More »The US Just Escalated Its AI Chip War With China
A year ago, the US government introduced chip sanctions aimed at hobbling China’s ability to develop advanced artificial intelligence. But those sanctions had loopholes that allowed Chinese firms to keep buying and building chips used to train some of the world’s most advanced AI algorithms. Today, the US announced it …
Read More »Graphcore Was the UK's AI Champion—Now It’s Scrambling to Survive
Last month, the UK government announced the home for its new exascale supercomputer, designed to give the country an edge in the global artificial intelligence race. The £900 million ($1.1 billion) project would be built in Bristol, a city in the west of England famed for its industrial heritage, and …
Read More »Nvidia Chip Shortages Leave AI Startups Scrambling for Computing Power
Around 11 am Eastern on weekdays, as Europe prepares to sign off, the US East Coast hits the midday slog, and Silicon Valley fires up, Tel Aviv-based startup Astria’s AI image generator is as busy as ever. The company doesn’t profit much from this burst of activity, however. Companies like …
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