2026-02-20
AI chip startup Taalas @taalas_inc is showing off a chip that can do 16,000 tps/user on Llama3.1-8B, many multiples of its nearest competitor. The catch? The chip ONLY runs Llama3.1-8B, and a model like DeepSeekR1-671B would need 30 separate tapeouts: https://www.eetimes.com/...
Reuters
Toronto-based chip startup Taalas, which hardwires AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, raised $169M, bringing its total funding to $219M
Toronto-based chip startup Taalas said on Thursday it had raised $169 million and has developed a chip capable …
2026-02-19
AI chip startup Taalas @taalas_inc is showing off a chip that can do 16,000 tps/user on Llama3.1-8B, many multiples of its nearest competitor. The catch? The chip ONLY runs Llama3.1-8B, and a model like DeepSeekR1-671B would need 30 separate tapeouts: https://www.eetimes.com/...
Reuters
Toronto-based chip startup Taalas, which hardwires AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, raised $169M, bringing its total funding to $219M
Toronto-based chip startup Taalas said on Thursday it had raised $169 million and has developed a chip capable …
2025-12-07
Lemurian Labs, formerly an AI chip company, has raised $28M to develop its AI software stack, spanning the compiler layer all the way up to workload orchestration, while enabling code portability. The CEO said he wants to do away with kernels altogether: https://www.eetimes.com/...
EE Times
Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic portability software for AI workloads, raised a $28M Series A co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon
AI software startup Lemurian Labs has pivoted away from AI hardware, having raised a $28-million series A to build its AI software stack.