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🚀 A great week for Playground companies at SuperCompute 2024! 👀 d-Matrix launched their new Corsair inference platform, NextSilicon showcased Maverick-2, the world's first Intelligent Compute Accelerator, and Ayar Labs held a forum about how TeraPHY can help meet the performance requirements of next gen AI/HPC architectures. 👏 Cc Sid Sheth, Sree Ganesan, Elad Raz, Mark Wade cc Sasha Ostojic Daniel Yum Peter Barrett   #SC24

Big news coming from d-Matrix this week, with the debut of Corsair, their new #AI inference computing platform at #SC24, in Times Square, and to the general public. Their announcement gained widespread attention including this story in the Associated Press by Matt O'Brien and Barbara Ortutay: https://lnkd.in/g6KunHA7

"Being able to manually move the robot could be an important part of deploying industrial robotic systems in the future. For Carter, that means more than just becoming a passive piece of equipment, but rather sensing the force being applied and adjusting accordingly...People and robots are going to be working side by side for the foreseeable future, so it’s important to ensure we can do so safely." -- Brian Heater of TechCrunch in his article on Robust.AI's Carter Pro robot: https://lnkd.in/dB2ASR2U

The approach that animates #CPUs and #GPUs is nearly eight decades old. Gone are the days of single core performance doubling every 18 months, now it doubles once every twenty years. The von Neumann architecture has had a good run but it is about time for something new. NextSilicon is taking an entirely different approach to running software by adapting hardware to match the dynamics of a wide variety existing and future applications. Their intelligent compute accelerators outperform #CPUs and #GPUs, in some cases by orders of magnitude. Go see them at #SC24 to get a glimpse at what happens after #CPUs and #GPUs. #innovation #creativity #technology #future #engineering #research #science #design #ai

💃🏽 🤖 In this TEDx talk posted today, human-robot interaction specialist Leila Takayama of Robust.AI shares her thoughts "On designing robots for people": https://lnkd.in/gaHy6RWt

💐 Happy Friday to the team at Agility Robotics and their TIME cover model Digit 🤖 , named one of the Best Inventions of 2024! 🏆

💡 "We are stumbling around in the dark. But that era of darkness is about to come to an end because of the advent of large-scale quantum computing." -- Peter Barrett, co-founder and general partner of Playground Global, in the opening keynote of the 2024 Semiconductor Australia conference https://lnkd.in/gmyhpWh2

👏 As an early-stage, deep-tech VC firm, Playground Global was built to support founders taking on the most ambitious scientific and technical challenges. Which is why today’s recognition from Inc. Magazine of Playground Global on the 2024 Founder-Friendly Investors list is so meaningful to our team. 🤝 The list is built on founders’ recommendations and designed as a resource for entrepreneurs to find reliable partners. https://lnkd.in/gmiAvsTp

"Companies are bottlenecked by computing constraints at the chip, memory, and I/O levels, which are slowing down #AI. In that regard, startup Ayar Labs is in the right place at the right time." - Agam Shah, HPCwire Read on for the in-depth Q&A with Ayar Labs CEO Mark Wade: https://lnkd.in/gZK9tvmK