MiniMax hinted at its M3 model running on SambaNova hardware in an undated post, but the linked SambaNova demonstration identifies the model as M2.7 and provides no M3 benchmark results. MiniMax relea…
Stanford's Hazy Research group found that the intelligence per joule (IPJ) of local AI inference improved 18-fold from mid-2024 to late 2025, driven by a 3.1x gain from model architecture improvements…
A developer running llmlatency.dev measured time-to-first-token (TTFT) and time-to-first-byte (TTFB) for about 45 AI inference providers from four regions, finding that the two metrics often produce c…
A developer has built SARA, an open-source WhatsApp AI agent platform, after finding existing chatbot frameworks inadequate. The platform features 20 vertical-specific agent profiles with domain-speci…
A developer has detailed the architecture behind SARA, an open-source WhatsApp AI agent that has achieved 99.7% uptime over six months using a multi-provider AI chain with zero inference cost. The sys…
AMD announced it will acquire Taalas, a startup making model-specific AI inference chips that burn model weights directly into CMOS, claiming up to 17,000 tokens per second per user on its HC1 demonst…
Microsoft's enterprise AI business is surging, expanding OpenAI's influence, while SambaNova emerges as a company to watch, according to a July 30, 2026 analysis by Tom Krazit. The report also highlig…
SambaNova, a chip startup founded in 2017 by Kunle Olukotun, Chris Ré, and Rodrigo Liang, has raised over $1 billion in a Series F at an $11 billion valuation, positioning its Reconfigurable Dataflow …
Databricks signed a term sheet valuing it at $188 billion, a 40% jump in five months, on a new $3 billion investment led by Coatue Management. The company sells data infrastructure for AI rather than …
Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup General Compute Inc. announced it secured $400 million in debt financing from investment firm Upper90, which will initially provide $100 million. The com…
Upper90 has provided General Compute with a $400 million credit facility secured by SambaNova SN50 inference chips, marking the first major AI infrastructure loan backed by non-Nvidia hardware. The de…
General Compute secured a credit facility of up to $400 million from Upper90 Capital Management, backed by SambaNova's SN50 inference ASICs instead of Nvidia GPUs, marking the first major departure fr…
General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has secured a $400 million loan from Upper90, marking what may be the first deal to use inference-specific chips as collateral. The financing signals gr…
Two AI chip startups, Groq and Cerebras, achieved massive financial outcomes in the past year—Groq was acquired for $20 billion and Cerebras IPO'd to a $40 billion-plus market cap—but their pre-LLM ar…
A selloff in AI chip stocks erased over $1 trillion in combined market value in July 2026, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropping roughly 10%, as custom silicon from Amazon, OpenAI, and ot…
SambaNova Systems, an AI chip startup founded in 2017, is in acquisition talks with Intel at a potential deal value of about $1.6 billion, according to reports from Wired and Bloomberg, contradicting …
SambaNova combined four Nvidia H200 GPUs with 16 SN50 RDU chips to achieve 763 tokens per second on MiniMax M2.7 at a 10,000-token context, separating prefill and decode stages to accelerate inference…
Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova released third-party benchmarks showing its heterogeneous compute platform, combining Nvidia H200 GPUs and SambaNova SN50 RDUs, achieves 763 tokens per second on…
General Atlantic led a $1 billion funding round for AI chip maker SambaNova, valuing the company at $11 billion. The investment signals growing investor interest in AI infrastructure beyond model trai…
SambaNova, an AI chip startup, raised fresh funding at an $11 billion valuation, up from roughly $2 billion earlier this year, as investors race to back alternatives to Nvidia. The company builds chip…