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Rain Neuromorphics Inc<\/a>., a startup designing chips that mimic the way the brain works and aims to serve companies using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, said on Wednesday it raised $25 million.
Gordon Wilson<\/a>, CEO and co-founder of Rain, said that while most AI chips<\/a> on the market today are digital, his company's technology is analogue. Digital chips read 1s and 0s while analogue chips can decipher incremental information such as sound waves.
\"It's about looking at the brain first for clues to inform how we can build a new substrate of computation,\" said Wilson. \"By building neural circuits, we can achieve extraordinary efficiency and extraordinary scale simultaneously.\"
The AI market is currently dominated by NVIDIA Corp's graphic chips. Other U.S. startups that have been raising funds include SambaNova Systems, Groq, and Cerebras Systems.
Sam Altman, a well-known investor and AI researcher in Silicon Valley who is an early backer of Rain, told Reuters by e-mail that the company's \"neuromorphic approach could vastly reduce the costs of creating powerful AI models and will hopefully one day help to enable true artificial general intelligence.\"
Rain's chip is designed by adding a circuit called a memristor on top of silicon wafers. Memristors, originally designed by HP Labs about a decade ago, serve as 'artificial synapses' that allow for the processing and memory to happen in the same place, making it possible to run AI algorithms much faster and more energy-efficiently than existing digital AI chips, said Wilson.
The funds raised will be used to expand the engineering team as Rain takes its prototype chip to the next stage of development, said Wilson.
The latest funding round was led by Prosperity 7 Ventures, a venture capital fund of Aramco Ventures.
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芯片设计模仿大脑,Sam Altman的支持,得到2500万美元的资金
”是首先看大脑线索告诉我们如何建立一个新的基质的计算,”威尔逊说。“通过建立神经回路,我们可以同时实现非凡的效率和非凡的规模。”
雨神经形态公司创业设计芯片,模拟大脑的工作方式,旨在为公司使用人工智能(AI)算法,周三表示,筹集了2500万美元。
戈登•威尔逊网的CEO和创始人之一,雨说,虽然大多数人工智能芯片如今市场上的数字,他的公司的技术是模拟。数字芯片阅读1和0虽然模拟芯片可以破译增量信息,如声波。
”是首先看大脑线索告诉我们如何建立一个新的基质的计算,”威尔逊说。“通过建立神经回路,我们可以同时实现非凡的效率和非凡的规模。”
AI市场目前由NVIDIA图形芯片。其他美国公司已经筹集资金包括SambaNova系统、Groq,大脑系统。
山姆·奥特曼在硅谷知名投资者和人工智能研究的早期支持者雨,通过电子邮件向路透表示,该公司的“神经形态的方法可以大大减少的成本创建强大的人工智能模型,希望有一天将有助于使真正的人工一般智力。”
雨的芯片设计是通过添加一个电路称为忆阻器上的硅片。记忆电阻器,最初由惠普实验室大约十年前,作为“人工突触”,允许处理和记忆发生在同一个地方,使它可以运行的智能算法比现有的数字更迅速、更节能的智能芯片,威尔逊说。
筹集的资金将用于扩大工程团队,雨的原型芯片的下一阶段发展,威尔逊说。
最新一轮融资是由繁荣7企业,沙特阿美公司的风险投资基金。
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