AI IntelligenceAug 8, 2026M&A
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AMD -> Taalas
AMD is acquiring Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips, making them extremely fast but locked to a single model. A demo chip hit over 16,000 tokens per second per user running Llama 3.1-8B.
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AMD is acquiring Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips, making them extremely fast but locked to a single model. A demo chip hit over 16,000 tokens per second per user running Llama 3.1-8B.
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