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in Ehningen, Germany. SambaNova Systems For chips that could deliver exponential AI application gains SambaNova Systems platform, designed for enterprise and government use, combines AI chips with Samba-1, an open-source large language model similar to OpenAIs GPT-4. TSMC had record 2024 annual revenue of $87.8 billion, a 33.9%
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