Internal SpaceX documents show the sweet stock deals offered to investors like a16z, Gigafund

Like many highly valued startups, SpaceX sometimes allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized outside investors. TechCrunch has gotten a peek at an…

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A better weather forecast: Microsoft vets lead startup outperforming traditional sources

Better weather forecasting can have significant economic and social impacts for wide-ranging sectors, including energy, agriculture and transportation. (GeekWire Photo / Brent Roraback) Working on Aurora, Microsoft’s AI foundation model…

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Microsoft backed a tiny hardware startup that just launched its first AI processor that does inference without GPU or expensive HBM memory and a key Nvidia partner is collaborating with it

Microsoft-backed startup introduces GPU-free alternatives for generative AIDIMC architecture delivers an ultra-high memory bandwidth of 150 TB/sCorsair supports transformers, agentic AI, and interactive video generation d-Matrix Inc., a hardware startup…

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Yet another tech startup wants to topple Nvidia with 'orders of magnitude' better energy efficiency; Sagence AI bets on analog in-memory compute to deliver 666K tokens/s on Llama2-70B

Sagence brings analog in-memory compute to redefine AI inferenceTen times lower power and 20 times lower costsAlso offers integration with PyTorch and TensorFlow Sagence AI has introduced an advanced analog…

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