{"id":1019650,"date":"2026-07-09T08:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019650"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:28:19","slug":"us-chip-startup-sambanova-scores-billion-dollar-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/09\/us-chip-startup-sambanova-scores-billion-dollar-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"US chip startup SambaNova scores billion-dollar funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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;, the process by which AI models generate a response to users&#8217; everyday queries, over the arduous and costly effort of &#8220;training&#8221; new models from scratch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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;, the process by which AI models generate a response to users&#8217; everyday queries, over the arduous and costly effort of &#8220;training&#8221; new models from scratch.<\/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-1019650","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\/1019650","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=1019650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019671,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019650\/revisions\/1019671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}