Chipmaker AMD is acquiring World Labs, a two-year-old startup focused on physical AI that was cofounded by industry pioneer Fei-Fei Li. The $8.2 billion, all-stock deal will give AMD important technology in an emerging branch of AI that could power a new generation of autonomous machines such as robots and self-driving cars. The acquisition will
Before this week, the dominant story about Nvidia went something like this: For the first few years of the AI boom, Nvidia was the only source for state-of-the-art GPUs, which became immensely profitable as the industry scaled out. In the last few years, hyperscalers like Amazon and Google have started building their own chips, and
Nvidia’s efforts to deploy its GPUs throughout the world point to a new goal: the Moon. Lunar Outpost, a startup that builds robotics for space infrastructure, announced Thursday that its lunar rover will use Jetson chips to control its LiDAR system. When it does, it will likely be the first GPU on the lunar surface.
General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, secured a $400 million loan from Upper90, a technology investment firm. It could be the first deal to offer inference-specific chips as collateral: chips built to run already trained AI models quickly and efficiently, rather than the more expensive chips used to build the models in the first
For months, Kleiner Perkins partner Aditya Naganath had been mulling over his investing thesis that the next wave of AI wasn’t going to be a chatbot—it was going to be software that does the work autonomously, for hours at a time, across thousands of tasks at once. The trouble was, nobody had built the plumbing
