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Graphcore

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Graphcore remains one of the most recognizable non-NVIDIA AI chip companies, with a long-running effort to offer a different processor architecture for machine intelligence.

Bristol, UKFounded 2016No public API trackedWeekly review target

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Weekly review target

Published an official August 26, 2026 demonstration of fitting an 11B vision-language model on a phone and opened a Taipei office in August as part of its SoftBank-backed expansion.

Focus: Machine-intelligence processors and software stack for cloud and enterprise AI workloads.

Latest funding

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Tracked funding

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Latest valuation

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Latest revenue

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Deployment lifecycle position

Editorially verified updates

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Published an official August 26, 2026 demonstration of fitting an 11B vision-language model on a phone and opened a Taipei office in August as part of its SoftBank-backed expansion.

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Last checked Oct 18, 2026.

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Funding and financial history

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Product surface

Products and model families

Recent models

No standalone model family is structured for this profile.

Products

Bow IPUIPU-PODPoplar

Open weights

No

API access

No

Review target

Weekly

Market position

Lifecycle and strategic signals

Research

Preview

Growth

Deployment

Deployment: Production & at scale

Focus

Machine-intelligence processors and software stack for cloud and enterprise AI workloads.

Signals

AI chipsCloud AIAccelerators

Taxonomy

AI chipsCloud AI

Competitive context

NVIDIACerebrasSambaNova

Infrastructure & distribution

Where Graphcore sits in the AI stack

Infrastructure provider
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Model layer

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Access layer

Application or managed product

03

Market layer

Vertical + Enterprise

Public product surface

Bow IPUIPU-PODPoplar

Stack signals

AI chipsCloud AIAccelerators

This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.

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