"During Altman’s tenure as CEO, OpenAI signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on AI chips from a startup called Rain AI into which he has also invested personally.

Rain is based less than a mile from OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco and is working on a chip it calls a neuromorphic processing unit, or NPU, designed to replicate features of the human brain. OpenAI in 2019 signed a nonbinding agreement to spend $51 million on the chips when they became available, according to a copy of the deal and Rain disclosures to investors this year seen by WIRED. Rain told investors Altman had personally invested more than $1 million into the company. The letter of intent has not been previously reported."

sneeky bastard

no.

Raja designed the ponte vecchio (and family) for the Aurora Supercomputer collaborating with Jim Keller when he was working for Intel for a short time.

Gaudi came out of Habana Labs, an Israeli company Intel recently purchased

A guy with basically zero success weighs in on the market. Everyone listen up.

Barriers to entry are a high bar. $Bs in VC capital has flown into that exact space over the last 5-8 years, and there are a bunch of dead startups in the wake. Altman’s resources are no different than any of those others.