Modal Labs, a startup specializing in AI inference infrastructure, is talking to VCs about a new round at a valuation of about $2.5 billion, according to four people with knowledge of the deal. Should ...
Nvidia just paid $20 billion for Groq's inference technology in what is the semiconductor giant's largest deal ever. The question is: Why would the company that already dominates AI training pay this ...
The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, raising $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million ...
When you ask an artificial intelligence (AI) system to help you write a snappy social media post, you probably don’t mind if it takes a few seconds. If you want the AI to render an image or do some ...
If the hyperscalers are masters of anything, it is driving scale up and driving costs down so that a new type of information technology can be cheap enough so it can be widely deployed. The ...
Snowflake has thousands of enterprise customers who use the company's data and AI technologies. Though many issues with generative AI are solved, there is still lots of room for improvement. Two such ...
Dormancy is a widespread bet-hedging strategy across taxa, enabling organisms to survive natural and anthropogenic disturbances. It fundamentally alters eco-evolutionary processes, including ...