Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
RISC-V chip designer SiFive raised a $400M Series G led by Atreides at a $3.65B valuation; CEO Patrick Little says it is the final funding round before an IPO  —  Silicon Valley startup SiFive said on Thursday it has raised a $400 million round of funding from Atreides Management, Nvidia …

Quarter Up may be a new studio, but its team of developers brings in experience from around the industry, including a lot of fighting game experience. As part of our Invincible VS cover story coverage, learn about their roots in the classics, their work on previous games like 2013's Killer Instinct, and how that all fed into Invincible VS.

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Bloomberg:
Elorian, which builds visual AI models with better reasoning capabilities for industries like robotics, emerges from stealth with $55M at a $300M valuation  —  Former Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai believes that the artificial intelligence models at big labs have the intelligence of a 3-year-old kid …

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Google and Intel expand their partnership to deploy Xeon chips, including Xeon 6, and co-develop custom Infrastructure Processing Units to improve efficiency  —  Intel and Google have expanded their partnership to advance the use of artificial intelligence-focused central processing units …

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS' AI revenue has hit a $15B annual run rate as of Q1 and that Amazon's internal chips business is generating $20B+ per year  —  Andy Jassy's new letter to Amazon shareholders is a data-heavy defense of the tech giant's biggest bets — from AI and custom chips …