AI startup Rain AI hires Apple chip executive Jean-Didier Allegrucci to lead hardware engineering, focusing on energy-efficient chips for AI.

AI startup Rain AI, backed by Sam Altman and Y Combinator, hires Apple chip executive Jean-Didier Allegrucci to lead its hardware engineering division. Allegrucci, known for developing processors that replaced Intel in Apple devices, will focus on creating energy-efficient chips for Rain AI. The company uses in-memory compute, which processes data where it's stored, to reduce power consumption and aims to enable advanced AI everywhere.

June 28, 2024
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