SambaNova
Fast inference on custom dataflow hardware, offered as a cloud API or as racks installed in your own data centre.
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About SambaNova
What it is
SambaNova runs open models on reconfigurable dataflow hardware of its own design. It is sold as a hosted cloud service, as a software stack, and as physical racks that drop into an existing data centre, with fine-tuning alongside inference.
Why it's different
It competes on the same axis as the other specialist accelerators - speed per token, and cost at sustained load - with one distinction: the on-premises option is a real product rather than a slide, which matters for governments and regulated industries that cannot use a shared cloud at all. The trade is the same as any non-standard hardware: a smaller ecosystem, a shorter model list, and portability that depends on how much of your stack assumed CUDA.
How people use it
Sovereign and regulated deployments that must stay inside a building. High-volume inference where per-token cost dominates. Serving open models at speed. Confirm which models are available and how fine-tuning artefacts move before you design around it.
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