Taalas Technology to Boost AMD AI Performance and Efficiency

AMD has acquired Taalas, an AI-acceleration startup that hardwires models to achieve eight times the token rate of its nearest competitor while requiring a fraction of the power. Located in Toronto and founded by Tenstorrent cofounder Ljubisa Bajic, Taalas has demonstrated a chip implementing the Llama 3.1 8B model. AMD states that the company will […]