- Furiosaaai and Openai led a chatbot in Seoul’s demo using personalized RNGD chips
- The Korean startup rejected the buyout of Meta $ 800 million earlier this year
- Demonstration has shown that corporate AI models can work in a sustainable manner without GPU
Furiosaaai and Openai recently organized a joint demonstration in Seoul, South Korea, at the opening of the new Openai office, showing the GPT-OS 120B open-weight model operating on Furiosaai equipment.
The demonstration (which you can look at below) presented a real-time chatbot propelled by two of the RNGD accelerators in Furiosaai (pronounced “renegade”), the flagship inference of the company’s AI.
The model was executed using the MXFP4 precision, a format that reduces energy consumption while maintaining the precision necessary for business consumption.
Furiosaai was the only material company invited to participate in the event and the configuration has shown that large-scale open-source models can operate in the power budgets of standard data centers, without heavy energy costs and infrastructure requirements often associated with GPU.
Founded in 2017 by CEO June Paik, Furiosaai specializes in the design of AI fleas and employs around 140 employees. More than 90% are developers, including engineers with experience at Google, Qualcomm and Samsung.
The company’s flagship product of the company was presented for the first time at the Hot Chips 2024.
It is a high performance AI inference chip built on the 5 NMC TSMC process, with double HBM3 memory, and based on the contraction processor of the furiosaai tensor.
The design improves efficiency by maximizing parallelism and reducing unnecessary calculation.
Furiosaai recently obtained a round of funding from the C of the C series of 125 million dollars and signed a partnership with LG AI Research.
The company’s equipment has already been used in business deployments and tested for efficiency and reliability.
The startup has also aroused the interest of global technological companies. We reported in April that Meta had made an offer of $ 800 million (1.2 Won Billion) for the company.
Furiosaai rejected the acquisition, although it was around 300 million dollars on the estimated market value of the startup, because it did not agree with the management scheduled after the acquisition.
Industry observers claim that Seoul’s demonstration indicates the growing importance of specialized equipment as AI models continues to grow in size and complexity.
Energy and infrastructure costs that continue to skyrocket, startups like Furiosaai push their chips as an affordable solution that is part of business budgets.
