American startup Sambanova Systems has launched a new generative artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor product.
TechCrunch reported on the 1st (local time) that Sambanova has unveiled ‘SambaNova Suite’, a platform for building and providing AI models customized for businesses.
According to this, the feature of Sambanova Suite is that it is a low-power and high-efficiency chip tailored to the AI software stack that companies and governments actually want to use. It supports both open source and specific generative AI models to help businesses meet their specific needs.
“We offer custom products that support complex models such as PyTorch, TensorFlow and GPT, as well as AI models that companies really want to use,” said Sambanova CEO Rodrigo Liang. “These custom chips deliver continuous machine learning and inference capabilities. By making it possible, we can keep the data of generative AI up to date.”
The platform includes software as well as a chip, which helps solve comprehensive problems such as ▲customization for company-specific data ▲the ability to provide accountable and explainable AI ▲customized training for organizations.
“Sambanova Suite is built to tell you exactly how an AI model came to a certain conclusion,” said Liang. When you want to see why something happened in a certain way, you can actually work through the flow and see the results.”
TechCrunch explained that many startups are competing in the field of AI chips in addition to large companies such as Nvidia, the strongest player, according to the generative AI boom. Sambanova, Cerebras, Graphcore, Nubia, Halo, and Wave Computing are among the leading groups.
In particular, Sambanova, established in 2017, is a unicorn company (corporate value of 1 trillion won) that succeeded in attracting an investment of 676 million dollars (regarding 889 billion won) in April 2021. It also maintained its top spot in the hardware sector rankings recently announced by professional media AI Startups.
Reporter Lim Dae-jun ydj@aitimes.com
