(Bloomberg) — Rain AI has recruited an Apple Inc. chip govt to steer {hardware} engineering, the second high-profile rent this month for a startup making an attempt to design a brand new kind of semiconductor for synthetic intelligence.
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Jean-Didier Allegrucci, who helped oversee the event of processors that changed Intel Corp. in iPhones and Macs, will steer Rain AI’s efforts to create extra energy-efficient chips. He’ll work with lead architect Amin Firoozshahian, who moved over to the startup after 5 years at Meta Platforms Inc.
Backed by OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman and Y Combinator, San Francisco-based Rain AI is one among a rising cohort of startups seeking to develop new {hardware} for AI platforms. It’s exploring a way referred to as in-memory compute, modeled on the best way the human mind works, which guarantees to avoid wasting on energy consumption by processing information the place it’s saved.
Rain AI joins Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. in researching in-memory computing, which nonetheless faces questions round financial viability and environmental affect. However in the long term, extra environment friendly chips are important to including AI to a wider vary of units.
“Our novel compute-in-memory expertise will assist unlock the true potential of immediately’s generative AI fashions, and get us one step nearer to working the quickest, least expensive, and most superior AI fashions wherever,” Rain AI Chief Government Officer William Passo mentioned in a press release.
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