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Rain AI

What Rain AI does

Rain AI (formerly associated with “Rain Neuromorphics”) is an AI-hardware startup building energy-efficient accelerator designs focused on “compute-in-memory” / digital in-memory compute. The company describes its technical differentiation as a hardware–software co-design approach built around Digital In-Memory Computing (D-IMC) cores, numerics co-designed to target FP32-accuracy outcomes while using low-bit matrix multiplication (e.g., 4-bit/8-bit), and a RISC-V-based programming model and interconnect to improve operator coverage and model reprogrammability. Rain positions its business around (1) custom development and (2) IP licensing for its digital in-memory compute tile and software stack for on-device AI workloads requiring low latency and high energy efficiency. It also says it is operating as a Series A company and that “hardware [is] available soon,” with an upcoming AI chip/accelerator solution referenced on its product and blog pages.

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Company record

Date not disclosed · Official · Rain AI (blog/press release content)Rain AI partners with Andes Technology on RISC-V to accelerate its roadmap

Rain announced a partnership with Andes Technology, stating it licensed Andes’ AX45MPV RISC-V vector processor and planned to leverage Andes Custom Computing Business Unit integrations; Rain also stated it would unveil its accelerator solution in early 2025.

Date not disclosed · Official · Rain AI (blog)Leading architect joins Rain AI to accelerate vision

Rain AI announced that former Meta architecture leader Amin Firoozshahian joined the team as Lead Architect to lead design/development of new technologies intended to reduce energy required for AI inference and training.

Date not disclosed · Official · Rain AI (blog/press release content)Apple silicon exec joins Rain AI leadership team

Rain announced that seventeen-year Apple veteran Jean-Didier (“J-D”) Allegrucci joined as Head of Hardware Engineering to oversee Rain’s silicon and system efforts for its energy-efficient hardware products.

Date not disclosed · Official · Rain AI (blog)Rain AI selected for 2024 “Startups to Watch” list

Rain announced it was selected as one of the “2024 Startups to Watch” by the Silicon Valley Business Journal and San Francisco Business Times and included an interview-style Q&A referencing Rain’s non-von Neumann approach, as well as timelines for IP licensing and chip delivery.

Date not disclosed · Official · Rain AI (Reuters repost)Rain AI raises $25m Series A (reported via Reuters on Rain AI site)

Rain’s site republishes a Reuters item saying Rain AI raised a $25m Series A backed by Sam Altman and led by Prosperity 7 Ventures, describing use of proceeds to expand engineering as it advanced its prototype chip.

Date not disclosed · Official · Rain AI (blog/press release content)Rain partners with Yoshua Bengio’s Mila AI Institute

Rain announced a partnership with Mila, focusing on deepening Rain’s algorithm expertise and innovating on new types of learning algorithms in support of Rain’s co-design view of hardware and algorithms.

Date not disclosed · Official · Rain AI (The Information repost)Rain AI featured in The Information’s AI-compute startup list

Rain reposted a The Information item listing Rain among “The Twelve Startups Battling for a Slice of Nvidia’s Pie.”

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What it builds

Rain AI’s upcoming AI chip / accelerator solutions

Rain AI describes an upcoming AI accelerator and provides information that it offers custom-soC IP and that hardware is expected to be available soon, with IP licensing opportunities around its compute tile and software stack.

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IP licensing (digital in-memory compute tile + software stack)

Rain AI offers IP licensing opportunities for its digital in-memory compute tile and software stack, targeting on-device AI workloads that require ultra-low latency and high energy efficiency.

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Milestones & partnerships