Around 11 am Eastern on weekdays, as Europe prepares to sign off, the US East Coast hits the midday slog, and Silicon Valley fires up, Tel Aviv-based startup Astria’s AI image generator is as busy as ever. The company doesn’t profit much from this burst of activity, however.
Companies like Astria that are developing AI technologies use graphics processors (GPUs) to train software that learns patterns in photos and other media. The chips also handle inference, or the harnessing of those lessons to generate content in response to user prompts. But the global rush to integrate AI into every app and program, combined with lingering manufacturing challenges dating back to
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