SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Lightmatter, a $4.4 billion business, introduced two pieces of technology on Monday that attempt to accelerate connections between artificial intelligence processors. Instead of sending electrical signals between computer processors, Lightmatter’s technology employs optical links and silicon photonics to transmit information via light. Lightmatter, situated in MountainContinue Reading
(Reuters) – OpenAI announced on Monday that it will receive up to $40 billion in a new investment round led by SoftBank Group (9984.T) at a $300 billion valuation to promote AI research, expand computing infrastructure, and improve its tools. The Japanese tech investment company said in a statement thatContinue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) — Zhipu AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence firm, released a free AI agent on Monday, following a slew of similar releases in China’s increasingly competitive AI sector. At a lunch event in Beijing, CEO Zhang Peng said that the tool, named AutoGLM Rumination, can undertake deep research asContinue Reading