Silicon Data has raised $30.5 million to expand its pricing and performance benchmarks for the rapidly growing AI compute market. CEO Carmen Li joins Bloomberg to discuss the company’s ambition to become an “independent referee” for compute, CME’s planned GPU futures tied to Silicon Data benchmarks, and what its data says about the value and depreciation of older chips. She joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.”
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@yomajo
August 12, 2026 at 4:53 pm
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@ausmiku
August 12, 2026 at 6:54 pm
Do your research. AI can’t verify itself. It has no logic or deduction capability, it can’t “do” maths, it’s not trusted in law or medicine, and it can hallucinate. AI added glue to a pizza recipe, it said people should eat rocks for minerals and vitamins, it didn’t know how many letters “r” were in “strawberry”. LOL. The fanboys and influencers are being played by the fraudulent AI companies. AI is the biggest scam in history.
@1NISU
August 12, 2026 at 9:24 pm
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