Anthropic is reportedly in early talks to buy Fractile inference chips as AI memory costs and supply pressure intensify.

Google is negotiating with Marvell Technology to co-develop two new AI chips—a memory processing unit and a next-gen TPU—to boost AI inference efficiency.

Nvidia is set to announce a new inference chip platform at its upcoming GTC conference in March, aiming to further solidify its dominance in the AI hardware market.

Inferact, the startup commercializing the popular open-source inference engine vLLM, has raised a $150 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed to accelerate AI application deployment.