2026-02-20
This is an exciting effort. @cerebras has proven that speed matters. Ljubisa and the team have taken the same approach: develop new engineering to make a model go hyper fast. From a manufacturing perspective, @taalas_inc seems like it's tradeoffs are more digestible & scalable
Reuters
Toronto-based chip startup Taalas, which hardwires AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, raised $169M, bringing its total funding to $219M
Toronto-based chip startup Taalas said on Thursday it had raised $169 million and has developed a chip capable …
2026-02-19
This is an exciting effort. @cerebras has proven that speed matters. Ljubisa and the team have taken the same approach: develop new engineering to make a model go hyper fast. From a manufacturing perspective, @taalas_inc seems like it's tradeoffs are more digestible & scalable
Reuters
Toronto-based chip startup Taalas, which hardwires AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, raised $169M, bringing its total funding to $219M
Toronto-based chip startup Taalas said on Thursday it had raised $169 million and has developed a chip capable …
2025-01-31
One of my favourites has done it again. The best all article (and take!) on DeepSeek. Well done https://semianalysis.com/... (Only thing missing is the work they've done on data movement close to the metal and avoiding CUDA which fits very nicely to @tenstorrent's approach) 😉
SemiAnalysis
A close look at DeepSeek, which is estimated to have access to ~50K Hopper GPUs, a total server capex of ~$1.3B, and a GPU spend of $500M+ over its history
The DeepSeek Narrative Takes the World by Storm — DeepSeek took the world by storm. For the last week, DeepSeek has been the only topic …