Don’t Laugh at Intel; Biden’s Industry-Friendly Executive Order

Congratulations if you already knew that Intel, the American chip pioneer, had started selling artificial intelligence-related software—as opposed to just hardware—to businesses that want to build generative AI apps. I had no idea myself until I wrote a story on Wednesday about Intel expanding that effort. It’s planning to announce the move sometime in the coming months.

Before you laugh off the project due to Intel’s also-ran status in the great AI race, consider that if Nvidia’s AI server chip sales quintuple to $125 billion next year as some analysts project, it stands to reason that the market for ChatGPT-like software will also greatly expand from where it is today. So the pie will presumably be big enough for all manner of enterprise tech sellers, even Intel, to take a piece.

As we pointed out yesterday, AI customers big and small are looking for cheaper alternatives to OpenAI, and OpenAI is no longer the only LLM software game in town. Intel will undoubtedly try to jump on that trend and help its customers use large language models from a variety of sources—even those developed by Intel itself—depending on their needs.