Tenstorrent, a Canadian firm, has raised 100 million dollars from sponsors including Samsung Investment Fund, Hyundai Motor Group, and Kia to compete with Nvidia’s monopoly in the provision of processors for artificial intelligence solutions including ChatGPT by OpenAI and Bard of Google.
“With this investment, the Group expects to develop optimized but differentiated semiconductor technology that will aid future mobilities and strengthen internal capabilities in AI technology development,” Heung-soo Kim, executive vice president and head of the global strategy office at Hyundai Motor Group, said in a statement.
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Jim Keller, previously employed by Tesla, is the founder and chief executive officer of the firm, which has received 234.5 million dollars so far and has a current market value of approximately one billion dollars.
According to Reuters, Tenstorrent secured 50 million dollars from the Catalyst Fund of Samsung, thirty million dollars from Hyundai, and twenty million dollars from Kia, along with different investors including Eclipse Ventures, Fidelity Ventures, Epiq Capital, as well as Maverick Capital in the most recent round of investment.
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Tenstorrent won’t technically acquire an added worth until it does a second round of equity financing, which the company says it hopes to complete next year. This is because the investment round was set up as a loan that would eventually be converted to shares. Regarding specifics of the convertible debt, Tenstorrent refuses to provide additional information.
In a statement about the new investment, Hyundai said, “Hyundai Motor Group today announced a strategic investment in Tenstorrent, an artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor company based in Toronto, Canada, which will allow the Group to integrate AI into future Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis vehicles, and other future mobilities, including robotics and advanced air mobility (AAM).”
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In addition to manufacturing its own artificial intelligence chips, Tenstorrent, which was launched in 2016, also sells its proprietary rights and other technologies to clients so they may create their own artificial intelligence chips.
Tenstorrent is currently focusing on additional applications for AI chips, including the agreement unveiled in May where the firm would produce chips that might be utilized in smart televisions, in addition to taking against Nvidia in the data center.
In the meantime, Keller, who assumed control of the artificial intelligence chip manufacturer previously this year, has in the past produced chips for firms such as Tesla, Apple, and Intel. His tenure at Tenstorrent represents a comeback to the automotive technology industry.
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