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Lambda, an AI infrastructure company, this week announced it raised $15 million in a venture funding round from 1517, Gradient Ventures, 公司筆電收購razer, Bloomberg Beta, Georges Harik, and others, plus a $9.5 million debt facility. The $24.5 million investment brings the company’s total raised to $28.5 million, following an earlier $4 million seed tranche.

In 2013, San Francisco, California-based Lambda controversially launched a facial recognition API for developers working on apps for Google Glass, Google’s ill-fated heads-up augmented reality display. The API — which soon expanded to other platforms — enabled apps to do things like “remember this face” and “find your friends in a crowd,” Lambda CEO Stephen Balaban told TechCrunch at the time. The API has been used by thousands of developers and was, at least at one point, seeing over 5 million API calls per month.

Since then, however, Lambda has pivoted to selling hardware systems designed for AI, machine learning, and deep learning applications. Among these are the TensorBook, a laptop with a dedicated GPU, and a workstation product with up to four desktop-class GPUs for AI training. Lambda also offers servers, including one designed to be shared between teams and a server cluster, called Echelon, that Balaban describes as “datacenter-scale.”

(Lambda’s Balaban presented at VB Transform this week, as part of the event’s innovation showcase of cool, emerging technologies. See Balaban’s presentation above.)

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“We initially created a facial recognition API, a deep learning-powered image editor called Dreamscope, and, because of the experience of running our own GPU infrastructure, decided to offer preconfigured workstations and servers,” Balaban told VentureBeat via email. “We provide the infrastructure — laptops, workstations, and servers — so that our customers can focus on training models and building value for their customers. Most companies get distracted by building huge infrastructure teams when they should be building huge machine learning teams to use infrastructure that’s easier to manage.”

Above: One of Lambda workstations.

A number of startups offer preconfigured hardware for AI development, including Graphcore. But Balaban says Lambda’s major differentiator is its software tools.

Every Lambda machine comes preinstalled with Lambda Stack, a collection of machine learning software development frameworks, including Google’s TensorFlow and Facebook’s PyTorch. Developers can update the frameworks with a single console command, and if they’ve trained the model on a local machine, they can copy it up to a Lambda server running in the cloud.

“Our customers include Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Amazon Research, Tencent, Kaiser Permanente, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Caltech, and the Department of Defense,” Balaban said. “We have [thousands] of users, [and] most of the Fortune 500 and almost every major research university in the U.S. — as well as [many of] the research labs at the Department of Transportation and Department of Energy — use Lambda hardware and Lambda Stack.”

Balaban also claims that the over-40-employee company, which was founded in 2012, has been GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) profitable since 2019. It’s on a $60 million revenue run rate for 2021 and plans to have around 60 employees by the end of the year.

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▲Acer Swift 3(SF314-511) 輕薄筆電介紹。（影片／記者洪聖壹攝、製作）

特約記者洪聖壹／綜合報導

選在野餐活動現場展出、接觸年輕族群，宏碁日前宣布針對輕薄型筆電推出全新 intel 第 11 代 Core i5 處理器版本，其中 Acer Swift 3 新色首度對外亮相，該款筆電通過 Intel Evo 平台認證，而且具備快充能力，充電 30 分鐘、用機 4 小時。

▲宏碁稍早對外展出Acer Swift 3(SF314-511) 輕薄筆電、通過 intel EVO 認證，5月初開賣。（圖／記者洪聖壹攝）

在這方面，有個新鮮的名詞叫做「Intel Evo」平台，稍微解釋一下，該平台是隨著 intel 第 11 代處理器而生的，只要通過該平台認證，除了搭載第 11 代 Intel Core i5 或 i7 行動處理器與 Intel Iris Xe 顯示晶片之外，並且強調輕薄、反應快速、長效電池續航力、可靠連線能力、逼真還原的音訊、高亮度顯示器等七項特點。

目前華碩推出的 14 吋筆電 ASUS Vivobook S14（S435EA）、新款輕薄筆電 Asus ZenBook S（UX393EA）、新款可翻轉筆電 Asus ZenBook Flip S（UX371EA）、戴爾新款Dell Inspiron 13（7306）、新款XPS13（9310）、雷蛇的公司筆電收購razer Book 13、聯想新款Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon、HP Spectre x360 14吋筆電以及 LG 日前在台北信義區展出的 LG Gram Z90P-G 都是 Intel Evo 平台產品。

以記者直擊的宏碁這款 Acer Swift 3 (SF314-511)筆電為例，該款筆電厚度約 15.9 mm、重約 1.2 公斤，搭載第11代Intel Core i5處理器，配備 14 吋 FHD解析度霧面螢幕，螢幕占比 85.73%，亮度 300 尼特，電池續航力 18 小時，充電 30 分鐘可享有 4 小時以上的電池續航力。

▲Acer Swift 3 (SF314-511)是款 14 吋筆電，電池續航力 18 小時，充電 30 分鐘可用機 4 小時。（圖／記者洪聖壹攝）

側邊 I/O 方面，擁有 USB3.2 Gen 2 Type-C 功能，加上雙頻 Wi-Fi 6 傳輸。儲存空間方面，配備 8GB RAM、512GB SSD，鍵盤維持內建指紋辨識器的設計，可以快速開機、支援 Windows Hello安全登入。

▲▼側邊 I/O 方面，擁有 USB3.2 Gen 2 Type-C、HDMI、Type-A USB 傳輸孔、3.5mm 耳機孔。（圖／記者洪聖壹攝）

▲鍵盤內建指紋辨識器的設計，可以快速開機、支援 Windows Hello安全登入。（圖／記者洪聖壹攝）

簡言之，這款筆電同時在輕薄度、儲存能力、續航力、處理器等軟硬體規格上都符合 intel Evo 認證，僅新台幣 34,900 元就可以入手，稍早也宣布最快在 5 月出貨，消費者預計會有亮銀、煙燻藍、莓果紅三款可供選擇。

相較往年來說，各家筆電大廠為了在紅海市場殺出一條血路，紛紛在材料、規格、價格上面動手腳，往往讓消費者入手之後才發現產品不好用，或者不如他們心中預期，而今年雖然 intel 第 11 代處理器被稱為末代 14nm 產品，不過許多設計確實很用心，消費者以後看到「Intel Evo」這個字，就代表擁有這七項他們需要的特色，接下來只要考慮價格跟外觀，在筆電的選擇上變得更簡單。

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