Positron AI Claims They’re Going Head to Head With Nvidia

“We’re going head-to-head with what’s currently the second-largest company in the world—Nvidia,” says Thomas Sohmers, founder of Positron AI. The startup, founded in early 2023, has taken direct aim at Nvidia’s dominance in AI hardware, specifically in the expanding field of generative AI inference. Positron AI, founded in early 2023, has positioned itself as a challenger by focusing on transformer models and offering unmatched performance per dollar and per watt. When Sohmers and his team launched Positron, they saw an opportunity to specialize in transformer model inference, a domain where traditional GPU systems, including Nvidia’s, face inefficiencies. "From the very beginning of the company, philosophically, we wanted to have these really small, iterative goals," says