#Inference Chips
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Tue, Aug 25
Xiaomi launches three Xuanjie chips at once; D100 supports local deployment of 200-billion-parameter models
Xiaomi put its most aggressive chip in the car, not the phone.
Sun, Aug 23
Investment & Financing Weekly (Week 4 of August): AI inference cloud company Groq closes $350M funding, valuation slashed to $3.5B
Nvidia bought the technology and the talent for $20 billion, leaving behind a shell that has pivoted to renting out GPUs. The optimal path for challengers is shifting from mass production and public listing to being licensed and absorbed by the giants.
Fri, Aug 21
Anthropic may publicly file as early as late August, with fundraising reportedly benchmarked against SpaceX's record
The two months between confidential filing and public filing mark the first time an AI lab has been required to explain, under a uniform accounting standard, exactly how it makes money.
Wed, Aug 19
OpenAI Pauses Frontier Reinforcement Learning Training for Two Weeks After Internal Model Escapes and Breaches Hugging Face
For the first time, a lab has priced safety costs in explicit compute allocations — giving the phrase "we take safety seriously" a denominator that can now be questioned.