Sam Altman was fundraising in the Middle East for a new chip venture to rival Nvidia before OpenAI's board ousted him
fortune.com
Altman planned to spin up an AI-focused chip company that could challenge Nvidia’s dominance.
  • Veastli@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The buried lede here is we could’ve had four major players in the GPU space

    There are a large number of startups working to rival Nvidia’s AI prowess. TensTorrent, Cerebras, etc.

    https://www.ai-startups.org/top/hardware/

    Each of them are five or more years ahead of whatever Altman was raising funds for.