Hardware·
One model per chip: AMD bought Taalas, whose test part hit 17,000 tokens a second
Taalas casts a model's weights into transistors. Its 6nm test chip served Llama 3.1 8B at roughly 17,000 tokens per second, and AMD just bought the company.
Taalas casts a model's weights into transistors. Its 6nm test chip served Llama 3.1 8B at roughly 17,000 tokens per second, and AMD just bought the company.

Anthropic acquired Stainless for a reported $300M and is winding down the hosted SDK generator that OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Cloudflare relied on.

Levels.fyi has acquired TechPays, Gergely Orosz's European tech-salary project. Here's what's changing, what isn't, and what it means for engineers.