Lambda Labs' COO has left the AI cloud provider to head Positron, a startup trying to compete with Nvidia

Lambda Labs’ COO has left the AI cloud provider to head Positron, a startup trying to compete with Nvidia

Lambda Labs, a Nvidia partner, has lost its chief operating officer to a little-known company building hardware for the AI industry. Lambda COO Mitesh Agrawal told Business Insider he stepped into a new role as CEO of Positron earlier this month. Positron builds hardware for transformer model inference, which is how chatbots like ChatGPT respond to user requests. Agrawal’s departure is significant given his role in shaping Lambda into one of Sil…

Lambda Labs' COO has left the AI cloud provider to head Positron, a startup trying to compete with Nvidia

Mitesh Agrawal has moved on from Lambda Labs for Positron, a new player in the AI hardware space.Kavita AgrawalLambda Labs COO Mitesh Agrawal has left to head AI hardware startup Positron.Lambda focuses on deploying cloud infrastructure to customers and is valued at over $2 billion.Positron aims to compete with Nvidia by offering faster, energy-efficient AI hardware.Lambda Labs, a Nvidia partner, has lost its chief operating officer to a little-…