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Nvidia forms Inception VC Alliance to connect AI startups with venture capital

Nvidia has formed its Inception VC Alliance to connect AI startups with venture capital. The move will help connect more than 7,500 startups in the company’s Inception program for AI tech with venture capital firms. Jeff Herbst, vice president of business development and head of Inception at Nvidia, unveiled the alliance today at the AI Day for VCs event during Nvidia’s annual GTC 21…
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SambaNova raises $676M to mass-produce AI training and inference chips

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. SambaNova Systems, a startup developing chips for AI workloads, today announced it has raised $676 million, valuing the company at more than $5 billion post-money. SambaNova says it plans to expand its customer base — particularly in the datacenter market — as it becomes one of the most capitalized AI…
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Some FDA-approved AI medical devices are not ‘adequately’ evaluated, Stanford study says

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Some AI-powered medical devices approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are vulnerable to data shifts and bias against underrepresented patients. That’s according to a Stanford study published in Nature Medicine last week, which found that even as AI becomes embedded in more medical devices —…
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Nvidia announces BlueField-3 DPUs for AI and analytics workloads

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Nvidia this morning took the wraps off of the BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU), the latest in its lineup of datacenter machines built for AI and analytics workloads. BlueField-3 packs software-defined networking, storage, and cybersecurity acceleration capabilities, offering what Nvidia claims is the…
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