Upstart claims its chips beat Nvidia's A100 on AI oomph

SambaNova says its latest chips can best Nvidia's A100 silicon by a wide margin, at least when it comes to machine learning workloads. The Palo Alto-based AI startup this week revealed its DataScale systems and Cardinal SN30 accelerator, which the company claims is capable of delivering 688 TFLOPS of BF16 performance, twice …

[captain veg]

> The chip features a 640MB SRAM cache,

640M ought to be enough for anybody.

-A.

[Il'Geller]

These giant models have nothing to do with artificial intelligence because they have no personality. No personality, no AI. It is better to let them compete in calculating the number pi, there is no such disgrace as with these models.