Microsoft Reportedly Pinning its AI Hopes on In-House ‘Athena’ Chip

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Microsoft Reportedly Pinning its AI Hopes on In-House ‘Athena’ Chip
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Microsoft is reportedly developing an AI-centric GPU for itself and OpenAI, one that can give them an edge over AI chipmaker Nvidia.

, which is supposed to grant nine times as much training performance as its previous AI training chiplast month that OpenAI and Stable Diffusion-maker Stability AI each

used a H100 in part to train and run their current-gen AI models. Thing is, that H100 isn’t cheap. As first reported bywhen it has cost closer to $36,000 in the past.Nvidia declined to comment on Microsoft’s plans to stop relying on the company’s tech. Though Nvidia maintains the biggest lead in AI training chips, the company does probably still want to keep Microsoft as a customer. Last year, the

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