SambaNova, an early developer of the pre-trained foundation models that underpin language-recognition technology, recently launched a suite of "enterprise-ready" generative AI systems that includes ChatGPT chatbots specifically for banks, law firms, healthcare providers and the sectors, Mr. Singh said
— Angus Loten, The Wall Street Journal
Each of the systems has eight DataScale SN30 chips, launched in September, and triples the speed of the previous generation.
— Jane Lanhee Lee, Reuters
Even if [Nvidia’s] DGX-H100 offers 3X the performance at 16-bit floating point calculation than the DGX-A100, it will not close the gap with the SambaNova system.
— Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Next Platform
The Palo Alto-based AI startup this week revealed its DataScale systems and Cardinal SN30 accelerator, which the company claims is capable of delivering 688 TFLOPS of BF16 performance, twice that of Nvidia's A100.
— Tobias Mann, The Register
Enterprises are increasingly adopting AI to power a wide range of business applications. As such, it believes it makes sense to move away from tactical AI deployments to a more scalable, enterprise-wide solution.
— Mike Wheatley, SiliconANGLE
... some tech industry observers say that in their current state, generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are not ready for enterprise use due to privacy and compliance concerns. SambaNova said its suite for generative AI works with customer data to tackle some of these problems.
— Esther Ajao, TechTarget
SambaNova bills its offering as “a fully integrated AI platform innovating in every level of the stack,” and the company is positioning this offering against Nvidia’s suite in its comparisons.
— Oliver Peckham, HPCWire