Startup designs custom application-specific photonic chips

Social media giant says it will deploy “tens of millions” of Graviton5 cores in support of agentic AI workloads

Shares in the company rose 20 percent after results were published

Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed

World’s richest man also detailed how production at the fab will be divided between Tesla and SpaceX

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger joins company’s board of directors

“Purpose-build architectures” designed to support model training and inference workloads

Follows announcement that Broadcom will develop Google TPUs until 2031

Company was launched by Rigetti Computing founder in 2024

Potential for additional shares to be issued if DustPhotonics hits certain financial milestones

Comes a month after Meta unveiled next four generations of its AI training and inferencing chips

The Ising calibration and decoding tools aim to tackle quantum error correction

Plans still said to be in early stages however, with Anthropic yet to put a dedicated team together

Company will work with the state’s Capital of Quantum initiative on the project

Financial terms of agreement have not been shared

Oversubscribed Series G round has valued the startup at $3.65bn

Release is a response to growing customer interest in the system, company claims

The offering which combines GPUs, RDUs, and CPUs will be available in the latter half of the year

Chipmaker announces involvement five months after Musk said Tesla might “do something with Intel”

Deal will also see rack-scale engineers move over to d-Matrix

Financial terms of agreements have not been disclosed

Purchase more than doubles company’s acreage in the area

Funding awarded under DOE’s Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry program

Agreement will see chipmaker Marvell provide custom XPUs and collaborate on optical interconnect and silicon photonics