Krutrim pivots to AI cloud services
The pivot to AI cloud services marks a departure from Krutrim’s earlier plans to build its own large language models and semiconductor chips.
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The pivot to AI cloud services marks a departure from Krutrim’s earlier plans to build its own large language models and semiconductor chips.
The London-based deeptech startup will invest the funds in engineering and research and development (R&D).
The fresh capital will support hiring and starting work on its next generation of chips.
Nvidia, which last agreed to invest $5 billion in Intel, currently holds the market lead for GPUs used by data centers.
The decision is part of the US efforts for production of chips locally and reduced its dependence on chip manufacturers in Taiwan.
Anthropic and Google Cloud had initially announced a strategic partnership in 2023.
The new chip, which is tentatively called as B30A, will be single die in nature.
The deal will allow Nvidia to sell its H20 accelerators and AMD its MI308 chips to China.
The shortage was due to the cancellation of the manufacturing capacity it had booked at chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.
The US government has assured Nvidia that licenses for the H20 AI chips will be granted, and it hopes to start deliveries soon, it said in a blog post.
In a bid to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the global artificial intelligence hardware space, the company has approached potential customers in UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand.