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Digital computing using silicon chips has transformed nearly every aspect of modern life and enabled the remarkable growth of artificial intelligence. But as AI models scale up, that growth comes with increasing demands for energy, water and computing infrastructure.

Add to Google Preferred Sources Shenzhen-based on-device AI hardware startup Violoop has completed a new funding round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, with Legend Capital, BlueRun Ventures, and CICC Porsche participating, and all existing investors following on. This marks Legend Capital’s first investment in the personal on-device Agent hardware category. Since January this year,…

Andreessen Horowitz — the venture capital firm that spent fifteen years arguing software would eat the world — has closed a $1.1 billion fund dedicated exclusively to AI hardware and physical infrastructure, marking the moment Silicon Valley’s most ideologically committed software investor formally declared that physics is now the binding constraint on artificial intelligence. The…

August 28 (Hypepotamus)- Most coworking spaces will give you a desk, WiFi, and some coffee so that you can get to work. But that’s not what you’ll find at Kickr Labs, a new hardware product-focused incubator and workspace located near The Battery in Metro Atlanta

We’re opening a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification for AI agents to safely operate physical devices, to a first group of scientific research labs and advanced manufacturers. MHS enables AI agents to operate multiple lab and manufacturing instruments, such as microscopes, liquid handlers, and robotic arms, in parallel, and…