Is there something special about this unlike the million other AI companies that justifies putting some company’s press release on the front page or was this the result of unnatural voting patterns?
AFAIK they are a hardware company producing special chips for processing AI tasks. Their response time is incredibly fast, like 500t-900t/s for LLMs. They're not just a company that buys in Nvidia cards for serving as a backend.
In other words, they are competing with Nvidia, not the million startups using Nvidia.
I don't understand why all of their hubub is about tokens per second (which relies on a lot more than just hardware) instead of FLOPs/memory bandwidth/etc.
They do make their own hardware, but of note is that they stopped selling hardware and instead pivoted to only selling API access, 4 months ago. Hence no need to describe anything aside from tokens/sec?
