The AI Chip Wars Rage On; The Rise of the AI Academic-Turned-Founder; Has No One Seen Black Mirror?

When Microsoft took an early bet on OpenAI in 2019, investing $1 billion into the startup, it also placed a major bet on another project: creating a competitor to Nvidia’s graphics processing units, we reported back in April. Now, years later, Microsoft executives plan to unveil a chip designed for artificial intelligence next month at Ignite, its annual developers conference, we reported last Friday.

To be fair, Microsoft is clearly playing catch up to Google and Amazon …

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