According to foreign media SiliconANGLE, led by Tenstorrent founder Ljubisa BajicAI ChipsStartupsTaalasSuccessfully completed two rounds of funding totaling US$50 millionFinancing, designed to provide specificAI ModelsCreate customized dedicated chips.
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Ljubisa Bajic, who previously worked at AMD and Nvidia, is the founder and first CEO of Tenstorrent. He became the CTO and president of Tenstorrent in October 2022, handing over the CEO position toFamousChip designer Jim Keller. In March 2023, Ljubisa Bajic left Tenstorrent and founded a new company, Taalas, in September.
Taalas aims to build highly specialized chips that provide customized computing power for AI models. The company believes that the basic commercialization of AI requires a 1,000-fold increase in computing power and efficiency, which cannot be achieved with general-purpose computers. Only by closely integrating chips and models can sustainable development be achieved.
Taalas' chips will be built for the requirements of specific neural networks, without the need for external memory, and can accommodate the entire model on-chip. Using efficient hardwired computing, a single chip can rival a small GPU data center.
Taalas plans to achieve itsFirstThe LLM chip has been taped out and is scheduled to be shipped to early customers in the first quarter of 2025. Through customized dedicated chips, Taalas is committed to promoting the popularization of AI in daily life and providing strong support for the development of AI models.