{"id":186638,"date":"2024-04-02T10:24:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/ucl-spinout-bags-10m-to-make-ai-super-brains-for-100x-faster-llm-training"},"modified":"2024-04-02T10:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:24:40","slug":"ucl-spinout-bags-10m-to-make-ai-super-brains-for-100x-faster-llm-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/ucl-spinout-bags-10m-to-make-ai-super-brains-for-100x-faster-llm-training","title":{"rendered":"UCL spinout bags \u00a310M to make AI \u2018super brains\u2019 for 100x faster LLM training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ucl-spinout-bags-10m-to-make-ai-super-brains-for-100x-faster-llm-training2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oriole Networks, a UCL spinout, has raised \u00a310mn in seed <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funding<\/a> to build AI \u201csuper brains\u201d that promise to accelerate the training of Large Language Models (LLMs).<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2023 by UCL scientists, the startup has developed a new method that harnesses the power of light to connect thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI<\/a> chips. This results in a network of chips, where the power of each individual GPU is combined to form a \u201csuper brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to James Regan, CEO at Oriole Networks, this \u201cenables the direct connection of a very large number of nodes enabling it to function as a single machine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oriole Networks, a UCL spinout, has raised \u00a310mn in seed funding to build AI \u201csuper brains\u201d that promise to accelerate the training of Large Language Models (LLMs). Founded in 2023 by UCL scientists, the startup has developed a new method that harnesses the power of light to connect thousands of AI chips. This results in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}