Intel, SambaNova link up to support AI compute

The collaboration aims to cut costs for enterprises deploying agents and cloud-scale inference capabilities.

Dive Brief: 

• SambaNova and Intel announced a multiyear partnership to support cost-efficient AI inference capabilities as enterprise adoption of AI advances, the two companies said Tuesday. 
• The AI provider said it raised $350 million in Series E financing for manufacturing and cloud capacity expansion with participation from Intel Capital. 
• Intel’s investment will help speed rollout of an Intel-powered AI cloud that scales SambaNova’s AI cloud offering on Intel Xeon-based infrastructure to support large language and multimodal models, powering “scalable, production-ready inference for reasoning, code generation, multimodal applications and agentic workflows,” the company said.