{"id":1019600,"date":"2026-07-09T08:28:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019600"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:10:53","slug":"us-chip-startup-sambanova-scores-1-billion-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/09\/us-chip-startup-sambanova-scores-1-billion-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"US chip startup SambaNova scores $1-billion funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris: American AI chip startup SambaNova said Wednesday it had been valued at $11 billion, in a $1 billion fundraising round announced at the Raise Summit industry event in Paris. <\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s juiced valuation highlights the growing importance of its specialist area of AI &#8220;inference&#8221; &#8212; the process by which AI models generate a response to users&#8217; everyday queries &#8212; over the arduous and costly effort of &#8220;training&#8221; new models from scratch. <\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2017 and backed by US semiconductor heavyweight Intel, California-based SambaNova will use the latest cash infusion to &#8220;continue investing across chips, systems, software, and full-stack AI infrastructure,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris: American AI chip startup SambaNova said Wednesday it had been valued at $11 billion, in a $1 billion fundraising round announced at the Raise Summit industry event in Paris. The company&#8217;s juiced valuation highlights the growing importance of its specialist area of AI &#8220;inference&#8221; &#8212; the process by which AI models generate a response to users&#8217; everyday queries &#8212; over the arduous and costly effort of &#8220;training&#8221; new models from scratch. Founded in 2017 and backed by US semiconductor heavyweight Intel, California-based SambaNova will use the latest cash infusion to &#8220;continue investing across chips, systems, software, and full-stack AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019626,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019600\/revisions\/1019626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}