Tokenomics - the Qualcomm worldview as a $3.9 billion data center gambit starts to add up

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Everybody wants tokens, but they also want amazing economics.

So says Chris Lattner, co-Founder & CEO of Modular, pitched as the portable alternative to NVIDIA's software stack, designed for every AI accelerator, and soon to be part of the Qualcomm empire following a $3.9 billion takeover offer.

Compute has fundamentally changed, argues Lattner:

It’s no longer about a single chip. Compute today is a large-scale data center distributed systems problem. We all need to program diverse AI accelerators from multiple different vendors. We need to get the best performance, the best TCO, and we need usability because doing all this is harder than it's ever been before. Now the world is still struggling to get individual systems to compete with the industry leader, but that's where Modular comes in.

At Modular, we spent the last 4.5 years building a novel platform that actually scales, all with the goal from the...

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