AI SW: Modular startup: $250M => $1.6B

Start-up Modular raises $250mn to challenge Nvidia’s software dominance

A team of Silicon Valley veterans who previously worked at Apple and Google has raised $250mn to challenge Nvidia’s dominance of the software tools used to programme artificial intelligence chips. Palo Alto-based Modular, which is building an alternative to Nvidia’s Cuda software that has been vital to keeping customers locked to the chipmaker’s AI products, announced it has received the new investment at a $1.6bn valuation

Modular: Modular Raises $250M to scale AI's Unified Compute Layer

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NVIDIA B200: Incredible Performance on NVIDIA’s Best

MAX delivers industry leading performance on NVIDIA Blackwell 200s, NVIDIA’s current flagship datacenter GPU. Following our partnership with Inworld, where we delivered 2.5x throughput wins and 3.3x latency wins (time to first audio) for their state-of-the-art text-to-speech model,

Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi in Las Vegas

 Amazon’s Zoox launches its robotaxi service in Las Vegas | The Seattle Times

"Zoox can afford to give free rides largely because of Amazon’s deep pockets. The e-commerce powerhouse, currently worth $2.5 trillion, bought Zoox for $1.2 billion five years ago as part of its efforts to establish a foothold in other fields of technology."