Hmmm ... it never Rains*, but it's poor.Aramaco Ventures & Qualcomm just announced their collaboration on several technologies including artificial intelligence.
Coincidentally:
- In February 2022, Aramaco Ventures via its Prosperity7 Ventures fund, also led Rain AI's neuromorphic chip start up $25M funding round.
- In September 2022, Aramaco Ventures via its Prosperity7 Ventures fund invested in Prophesee.
- In December 2023, the Joe Biden administration forced a Saudi Aramco-backed venture capital firm to sell its shares in Rain AI.
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Qualcomm Technologies, Aramco to improve digitization in Saudi Arabia; improve 4G/5G networks
The deal will see both firms collaborate on a robust blueprint for several technologies including AI, quantum computing and the development of both 4G and 5G networks.coingeek.com
The original Rain AI analog random nanowire tech, which was also backed by Sam Altman to the tune of $50M of OpenAi's money (and a little of his own) was a complete fizzer, and they are now pursuing a totally different digital approach.
Their random nanowire NN, which so beguiled Altman and the Saudis, confused the brain's complexity with chaos.
US2023023533A1 MEMRISTIVE DEVICE 20200218
[0035] As indicated in the cross-sectional view of FIG. 3 B, not all nanowires 310 have electrodes located at the same cross-sectional cut. Although electrodes 350 are arranged in a rectangular array, memristive device 300 is not a crossbar array. Instead, nanowires 310 are dispersed on substrate 302 . In some embodiments, nanowires 310 are randomly or pseudo-randomly distributed across substrate 302 . In some embodiments, nanowires 310 have a distribution that is replicated multiple times across substrate. However, the arrangement of nanowires 310 in a particular replication may not be ordered. In other embodiments, the distribution of nanowires 310 may not be random or pseudo-random, but is not an ordered array. For example, two nanowires 310 may cross in multiple locations.
Rain have now moved on to what they call digital-in-memory, but this patent application is for analog-in-memory with DAC/ADC.
WO2024091680A1 COMPUTE IN-MEMORY ARCHITECTURE FOR CONTINUOUS ON-CHIP LEARNING 20221028
[0036] FIG. 3 depicts an embodiment of a cell in one embodiment of an SRAM CIM module usable for CIM module 230 . Also shown is DAC 202 of compute engine 200 . For clarity, only one SRAM cell 310 is shown. However, multiple SRAM cells 310 may be present. For example, multiple SRAM cells 310 may be arranged in a rectangular array. An SRAM cell 310 may store a weight or a part of the weight. The CIM module shown includes lines 302 , 304 , and 318 , transistors 306 , 308 , 312 , 314 , and 316 , capacitors 320 (Cs) and 322 (CL ). In the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 , DAC 202 converts a digital input voltage to differential voltages, V1 and V2 , with zero reference. These voltages are coupled to each cell within the row. DAC 202 is thus used to temporal code differentially. Lines 302 and 304 carry voltages V1 and V2 , respectively, from DAC 202 . Line 318 is coupled with address decoder 270 (not shown in FIG. 3 ) and used to select cell 310 (and, in the embodiment shown, the entire row including cell 310 ), via transistors 306 and 308.
So what does Rain have up its sleeve? (wet elbow, cold shoulder, goosebumps, ...)
Gordon Wilson Co-founder & Executive Advisor
CEO at Rain for 6 years, Gordon laid the foundation for Rain to become a leading AI infrastructure company. He is a lifelong storyteller and scientific communicator.Say no more ...
I think the Biden administration has done the Saudis a favour.
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