Chip Designer Mimicking Brain, Backed by Sam Altman, Gets $25 M Funding

Rain Neuromorphics Inc., a UF startup designing chips that mimic the way the brain works and aims to serve companies using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, said it raised $25 million.

Gordon Wilson, CEO and co-founder of Rain, a UF Innovate | Accelerate at The Hub graduate company, said that while most AI chips on the market today are digital, his company’s technology is analogue. Digital chips read 1s and 0s while analogue chips can decipher incremental information such as sound waves.

“It’s about looking at the brain first for clues to inform how we can build a new substrate of computation,” said Wilson.”By building neural circuits, we can achieve extraordinary efficiency and extraordinary scale simultaneously.”

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