Rodrigo Liang
Rodrigo Liang is the Co-Founder and CEO of SambaNova Systems, a company building full-stack AI infrastructure and computing platforms. He has over 30 years of experience in semiconductor engineering, having previously served as Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation where he led SPARC processor and ASIC development, and earlier held engineering roles at Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Afara Websystems. He holds MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is best known for pioneering SambaNova's full-stack AI computing approach, including the development of the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) chip.
“In that condensed timeframe, what you're seeing is that, in order to deploy [capital] faster, the industry is putting its bet on fewer players that have gotten to scale.”
Source→“His company crossed the threshold earlier this month when it raised $1 billion in a Series F round led by General Atlantic at an $11 billion valuation.”
Source→“"When you're running faster with the high accuracy models, you can charge more at a lower cost, allowing their service providers to generate more margins for their services."”
Source→“We're announcing the first close, our series F is a $1 billion raise at $11 billion valuation.”
Source→“What we're able to do with premium inference is drive the performance of the largest models up. So you can actually deliver high quality models with these trillion parameter models at their full precision at incredible speeds. And when you're running faster with high accuracy models, you can charge more at a lower cost.”
Source→“What we're able to do with premium inference is drive the performance of the largest models up. So you can actually deliver high quality models with these trillion parameter models at their full precision at incredible speeds.”
Source→“SambaNova | AI chip and inference infrastructure company | Announced $1B Series F at $11B valuation; positioned as the solution to the inference economics problem with their SN50 chip”
Source→“"I've been in this industry for 32 years, building high performance chips for a long time. I've never seen the interest in semiconductors higher."”
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