{"id":932002,"date":"2025-05-19T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=932002"},"modified":"2025-05-19T11:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:08:32","slug":"chip-startup-rain-ai-backed-by-sam-altman-up-for-sale-after-funding-round-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/19\/chip-startup-rain-ai-backed-by-sam-altman-up-for-sale-after-funding-round-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip startup Rain AI backed by Sam Altman up for sale after funding round flops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco-based chipmaker Rain AI, once a promising startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is exploring a sale after its $150 million Series B fundraising round collapsed, the New York Post reports. Sources familiar with the matter told the Post that OpenAI is among the suitors circling the company, which develops energy-efficient chips designed to outperform industry leader Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p>In acquisition talks for weeks, with no offer as yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco-based chipmaker Rain AI, once a promising startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is exploring a sale after its $150 million Series B fundraising round collapsed, the New York Post reports. Sources familiar with the matter told the Post that OpenAI is among the suitors circling the company, which develops energy-efficient chips designed to outperform industry leader Nvidia. In acquisition talks for weeks, with no offer as yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932002","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}