Photonic computing startup Lightmatter has raised $ 400 million to blow one of modern datacenters’ bottlenecks wide open. The company’s optical interconnect layer allows hundreds of GPUs to work synchronously, streamlining the costly and complex job of training and running AI models. The growth of AI and its correspondingly immense compute requirements have supercharged the […]
Star Penn State pass rusher cracks first round in latest CBS NFL Mock Draft
Tommy Spaletto is a recent graduate of Indiana University with a degree in Media and a concentration in Sports Media. In his time at Indiana University, he wrote columns, features, and game reports for The Hoosier Network covering football, men’s/women’s basketball, and women’s soccer. As a college basketball fanatic, he is patiently waiting for the […]
OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re diving into OpenAI’s $ 6.6 billion fundraising round, the fifth Cybertruck recall in less than a year, and a neat project that’s Shazam-ing songs heard on a San Francisco street. Let’s get into it. OpenAI closed the largest VC round of all time this week. The […]
Hedosophia leads $7M seed round into retail supply chain AI startup Ameba
Traditional retailers have a pressing problem. Fast-moving like Shein and Temu are eating their lunch by leveraging purpose-built, end-to-end supply chains. Meanwhile, incumbent retailers are still stuck on legacy platforms, juggling a myriad number of data sets, and struggling to respond to a punishingly fast market. A London-based startup thinks it has the solution to […]
OpenAI’s $6.5B funding round may close as soon as next week
ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s next funding round, said to be around $ 6.5 billion, could close as soon as the end of next week. That’s according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal, which also reveals that OpenAI’s rumored conversion from a nonprofit org into a for-profit company is now a virtual certainty. Investors […]