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This Billion-Dollar Startup Is Challenging NVIDIA's Grip On AI Computing

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The AI boom is creating a massive computing crisis. As millions of users interact with AI every day, the hardware that powers modern models is hitting limits in speed, memory, and energy consumption. Enter SambaNova Systems: a startup that has raised more than $1.5 billion to challenge conventional AI computing. While NVIDIA dominates AI training, SambaNova believes the future belongs to inference—the process of serving AI models to real-world users at scale.

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