According to AI Chip Startup Furiosai, $ 800 million from Meta is offered

ForeosaiSouth Korea’s emerging chips for artificial intelligence applications, refused to offer a $ 800 million acquisition of Meta, and instead chose to focus on developing and producing artificial intelligence chips, According to the local media report.

The report said that the differences on the post -acquisition and organizational structure strategy, instead of price issues, caused the collapse of negotiations.

Besides other technology companies that build large linguistic models (LLMS) for various artificial intelligence applications, Meta tries to reduce their dependence on NVIDIA for LLMS training and construction chips. Technology giant It was revealed last year Custom AI chips, and In January She said she would invest up to $ 65 billion this year to support artificial intelligence initiatives.

Furiosaai did not respond to the comment. Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside the regular working hours.

At the same time, Forewsay is It is said in talks With investors to raise approximately $ 48 million (70 billion KRW), and aims to complete the collection of donations this month.

Founded in 2017 by June Pike, who was previously working in Samsung Electronics and AMD, Furiosaai developed Amnesty International chips, called Recite and Renegade (RNGD)To take over the likes of Nvidia and AMD.

The startup said it has completed the RNGD chips test, which is said to be the most appropriate for thinking forms, in partnership with LG AI Research and Aramco. According to LG AI’s research, LG AI research is planned Use RNGD Amnesty International Infrastructure Chips, start starting to launch chips later this year.