AI chip crunch: startups vie for Nvidia’s vital component

AI chip crunch: startups vie for Nvidia’s vital component

The artificial intelligence revolution is fully underway, but soaring demand for its most crucial component has startups scratching their heads on how they can deliver on AI’s promise. Generative AI’s lifeblood is a book-sized semiconductor known as the graphics processing unit (GPU) — built by one company, Nvidia. Nvidia’s CEO and founder Jensen Huang made … Read more

African tech startups take aim at AI ‘colonialism’, ET Telecom

African tech startups take aim at AI ‘colonialism’, ET Telecom

By Kim Harrisberg JOHANNESBURG: Called Lelapa AI, the artificial intelligence research lab headed by Pelonomi Moiloa means home in southern Africa’s Sotho and Tswana languages – a name that reflects its goal of building algorithms designed by Africans, for Africans. Lelapa AI is one of a clutch of African startups that aims to offer an … Read more