NVIDIA WINS FAST-GROWING AI STARTUP MODAL FOR NEW CENTRAL PROCESSORS

Nvidia has won central processor chip business with another fast-growing AI startup that until now relied entirely on chips from Intel and ​AMD, an early sign that its push into a market long ‌controlled by those two rivals has traction.

Modal, a cloud-computing startup that rents out computing power to AI developers, said it plans to start using Nvidia's new Vera central processor for the first time ​for hosting agents, the AI systems that can carry out long-running tasks for ​human users. Modal until now has run such work only on ⁠Intel and AMD chips.

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