SambaNova

SambaNova announced it joined the Genesis Mission Consortium, a public-private partnership led by the U.S. Department of Energy, contributing its RDU chip and full-stack inference expertise for national science, security, and energy challenges.

SambaNova announced the first close of a $1 billion strategic Series F financing, valuing the company at $11 billion post-money, and referenced JPMorganChase selecting SambaNova RDUs for fast on-prem AI inference.

SambaNova reported a heterogeneous, disaggregated inference demo combining an NVIDIA H200 rack for prefill with a SambaRack SN50 (16 RDU chips) for decode, sharing decode-speed results for MiniMax M2.7 benchmarks at RAISE Summit 2026.

SambaNova described an agentic inference demo using GPUs for prefill and SambaNova’s SN40 RDU for decode, reporting 2X inference speed versus B200-only configurations.

SambaNova announced support for a Responses API across SambaCloud, SambaStack, and SambaManaged, describing initial /v1/responses support and listing model starters for coding-agent workflows.

SambaNova and Intel described a heterogeneous inference design using GPUs for prefill, SambaNova RDUs for decode, and Intel Xeon processors as host/action CPUs for agentic tools and enterprise integration.

SambaNova introduced the SN50 AI chip, announced a collaboration blueprint with Intel for heterogeneous inference, and disclosed a $350M+ oversubscribed Series E led by Vista Equity Partners and Cambium Capital.

SambaNova announced its fifth-generation SN50 RDU and SambaRack SN50 system, positioning the SN50 for agentic inference and noting shipping timing mentioned in the post.