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   iFlytek to unveil Ascend 950-trained flagship LLM at 1024 event

   iFlytek plans to announce a new flagship general-purpose large model trained on Huawei's Ascend 950 at its October 24 1024 Developer Festival, a bid to escape the domestic-compute bottleneck. The article says Spark has been the only mainstream LLM trained entirely on Chinese chips for three years, but Ascend 910B's memory and bandwidth left its long-context and complex-code training about 5x less efficient than Nvidia's H200; Ascend 950's larger memory and bandwidth raise theoretical efficiency against H200 to 65%–85%, giving Spark a base for top-tier models. Commercially, the piece notes H1 2026 revenue of RMB 11.623 billion, up 6.52% year on year, a RMB 204 million net loss attributable to shareholders, a 2.65% decline in government-business revenue, and chairman Liu Qingfeng's August admission that iFlytek was visibly absent from the code and agent boom. The event is also expected to cover funding progress for the spun-out Ciyuan Xinghuo unit and chip and supernode plans.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 6
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   Baseten recruiting post lists ten reasons to join the AI inference startup

   Baseten published a July 25, 2024 blog post, "Ten reasons to join Baseten," pitching candidates on market opportunity, product positioning and team. It says the company was founded in 2019 as a platform for data science teams, expanded its vision to AI inference as generative AI accelerated in 2022, and now powers production inference for AI-native startups and enterprises. The post cites customers including Descript, Writer, Bland, Picnic Health and Patreon, its open-source model packaging framework Truss, Series B backing from investors such as Greylock, IVP and Spark, and hiring hubs in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Montreal and Toronto plus a London go-to-market team.

   Baseten Blog · 🔥 0

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