AI Hardware

A deep dive into Apple's legal claims against OpenAI, involving allegations of intellectual property theft, hardware spying, and the recruitment of key executives for unreleased AI hardware projects.

Apple has filed a major lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a systematic campaign to poach talent and steal confidential hardware designs, prototypes, and supplier data.

Apple has filed a major lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a systematic pattern of trade secret theft involving former Apple engineers and Jony Ive's hardware startup.

AI chipmaker SambaNova Systems has raised $1 billion in a new funding round, propelling its valuation to $11 billion and signaling a massive shift in the hardware-software co-design landscape for LLM inference.

Following OpenAI's lead, Anthropic is exploring custom silicon with Samsung to reduce reliance on NVIDIA and optimize Claude's performance.

OpenAI has officially teased a new hardware collaboration with Work Louder, designed to enhance the developer experience for Codex and AI-assisted coding workflows.

OpenAI transitions into silicon with Jalapeño, a custom ASIC designed with Broadcom to optimize inference and reduce dependency on generic GPUs.

OpenAI partners with Broadcom to develop 'Jalapeño', a custom ASIC designed specifically to accelerate LLM inference and reduce operational costs.

AI startup Hark emerges from stealth with a massive $700 million Series A funding round to develop a multimodal 'universal' AI interface designed to orchestrate existing digital services and power future hardware devices.

Google Cloud introduces the TPU v5p and the Axion ARM-based CPU to reduce reliance on Nvidia and lower the cost of training large language models.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outlines a roadmap where the Blackwell and Vera Rubin architectures drive a $1 trillion shift in data center infrastructure, revolutionizing LLM training and inference.

Meta is accelerating its custom silicon roadmap with four new MTIA chips designed to optimize Llama inference and recommendation rankings, reducing reliance on NVIDIA while cutting long-term operational costs.