Meta Platforms Strikes Multibillion-Dollar Deal to Rent Google TPUs
In October, The Left Shift published an exclusive report on Meta's talks with Google about a potential multi-million-dollar deal for Google's TPUs.
Chips
SambaNova Systems Unveils Fastest Chip for Agentic AI, Secures $350 Mn, Partners with Intel
SambaNova claims this enables enterprises to run larger models with higher responsiveness and lower operational costs.
SambaNova in Talks to Raise Over $350 Mn as AI Chip Demand Surges
The valuation for the round has not been disclosed.
Positron AI Becomes Unicorn With $230 Mn Raise to Power the Next Wave of Energy-Efficient AI Inference
The company said the funding will be used to expand its engineering and operations teams, scale manufacturing, and bring its inference-focused hardware and software stack to a broader set of enterprise customers.
Microsoft Unveils New AI Inference Accelerator Maia 200 to Boost Cloud AI Performance
Microsoft claims the accelerator offers up to 30 percent better performance per dollar than its current hardware.
U.S. Charges Four in Scheme to Illegally Export NVIDIA GPUs to China
They allegedly sent 400 NVIDIA A100 GPUs to China via transshipment hubs in Malaysia and Thailand.
Huawei Aims to Double GPU Efficiency with New AI Infrastructure Push
The technology, expected to be unveiled at a forthcoming AI industry conference, could raise chip utilisation rates to around 70 percent, up from the current 30–40 percent.