News Softbank founder reportedly aims to raise $100 billion to build AI chip company that would rival Nvidia

[Admin]

Softbank will allegedly set up an AI processor company to complement Arm.

Softbank founder reportedly aims to raise $100 billion to build AI chip company that would rival Nvidia : Read more

 

[ThomasKinsley]

I suppose I will have to get used to this AI fad coming everywhere. I certainly find it useful (DALL-E2 just saved me a few hours worth of work), but I'm concerned software companies are chasing AI to the detriment of everything else. Take Android, for example. People are panning the latest updates and noting that nothing has been fundamentally changed since Android 10. A minority of Windows users have transitioned to 11 because 10 works just as well for them. It's not like we have reached the pinnacle of software. There are updates and refreshes that can easily be done, yet companies aren't considering them.

 

[bit_user]

This feels like at least 5 years late... the AI chip startup fad is so "late 2010"s. I wonder what proportion of them already failed... probably in the high 90% range.

If they were serious, I'd imagine they could buy Cerebras or Tenstorrent for a lot less than $100B!