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… Our primary goal is to create AI capabilities that offer superior value for money.” He also said developing its own chips gives Alibaba “guaranteed supply of AI computing power,” which he said is necessary given “the unique circumstances currently facing the AI industry in China” – likely a referen… …
Systems Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can’t flag obvious AI slop Social networking giant Meta has revealed details of four previously unknown custom chips powering its AI services. …
… As explained to The Register by UALink Consortium chair Kurtis Bowman, this means the group can build for the 200G networks of today, the 400G networks that will soon be available, and whatever comes next at the physical layer. …
… All of the major cloud providers now offer similar services, which means smaller inference-as-a-service and neocloud providers not only need to constantly optimize their hardware and software stacks, but also must think carefully about how they differentiate themselves from the rest of the pack. ® …