- Furiosaai and Openai executed a chatbot in Seoul demos using custom RNGD chips
- The Korean startup rejected the purchase offer of $ 800 million in the beginning of this year
- The demonstration showed that business models can be executed sustainably without GPU
Furiosaai and Openai recently celebrated a joint demonstration in Seoul, South Korea, in the opening of the new OpenAi office, which shows the GPT-Oss 120b model of open weight that is executed in the Furiosaai hardware.
The demonstration (which can be seen below) presented a real -time chatbot driven by two of the RNGD accelerators of Furiosaai (pronounced “renegade”), the inference chip of the company’s badge.
The model was executed using MXFP4 Precision, a format that reduces energy consumption while maintaining the necessary precision for business use.
Furiosaai was the only invited hardware company to participate in the event and the configuration showed that large -scale open source models can operate within the energy budgets of standard data centers, without energy costs and infrastructure requirements often associated with GPUs.
Founded in 2017 by executive director June Paik, Furiosaai specializes in the design of AI chips and employs about 140 employees. More than 90 percent are developers, including engineers with experience in Google, Qualcomm and Samsung.
The company’s RNGD flagship product was presented for the first time at Hot Chips 2024.
It is a high -performance inference chip based on the 5 NM TSMC process, with dual HBM3 memory and based on the architecture of the Furiosai tensioner contraction processor.
Design improves efficiency by maximizing parallelism and reducing unnecessary calculation.
Furiosaai recently obtained a financing round of the C series of $ 125 million and signed an association with LG AI Research.
The company’s hardware has already been used in business implementations and proven to obtain efficiency and reliability.
The startup has also attracted the interest of global technology companies. We reported in April that Meta had made an offer of $ 800 million (1.2 billion wones) for the company.
Furiosaai rejected the acquisition, despite being approximately $ 300 million on the estimated market value of the startup, because I did not agree with the planned address after the acquisition.
Industry observers say that Seoul demonstration indicates the growing importance of specialized hardware as IA models continue to grow in size and complexity.
With the energy and infrastructure costs that continue to increase, new companies such as Furiosaai are pressing their chips as an affordable solution that fits business budgets.
