AI chipmaker Graphcore raises $222M at a $2.77B valuation and puts an IPO in its sights
Applications based on artificial intelligence whether they are systems running autonomous services, platforms being used in drug development or to predict the spread of a virus, traffic management for 5G networks or something else altogether require an unprecedented amount of computing power to run. And today, one of the big names in the world of designing and building processors fit for the task has closed a major round of funding as it takes its business to the next level.
Graphcore, the Bristol, U.K.-based AI chipmaker, has raised $222 million, a Series E that CEO and co-founder Nigel Toon said in an interview will be used for a couple of key purposes.
Graphcore recauda 222 millones de dólares en una ronda de financiación de serie E
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Graphcore recauda 222 millones de dólares en una ronda de financiación de serie E
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Huawei and top Chinese AI startup accused of building Uyghur alarm facial recognition scanner for govt
Plus: Graphcore pits its latest AI chips against Nvidia s A100, and Google CEO apologises for ousting a top AI ethics researcher
Katyanna Quach Sat 12 Dec 2020 // 11:02 UTC Share
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In brief Huawei, already sanctioned by the US for helping the Chinese government crack down on Uyghur muslims, built facial recognition software to surveil the ethnic group and alert authorities whenever a positive match was detected, it s claimed.
The company collaborated with AI startup Megvii to test a camera system that predicts people’s age, sex, and ethnicity based on their face. One of the functions the software was capable of performing was labelled as “Uyghur alarm”, according to documents (which you can see here) shared with the Washington Post.