An AI Chip Armageddon is Coming; Biden Punts on Open-Source LLMs

When I asked David Bennett, the chief customer officer of AI hardware developer Tenstorrent, about the future of startups like his, he was blunt: Most will go out of business.

To survive, he recommends startups remain flexible and avoid boxing themselves into any narrow use case. Bennett isn’t referring to some niche market, but rather, a wide-ranging group of tens of companies, from SiMa.ai to Cerebras, which have collectively raised billions of dollars in venture capital to …

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