Tenstorrent Vows to ‘Crush Everyone’ as Galaxy Blackhole Hits 350 Tokens/s on DeepSeek R1, Undercutting NVIDIA’s GB300 5x AI TCO

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Tenstorrent unveiled its Galaxy Blackhole AI servers and claimed 350+ tokens per second on DeepSeek R1-0528 671B.
The company says the systems beat NVIDIA GB300-based setups on token cost and total cost of ownership, especially for latency-sensitive inference.
It also highlighted faster GenAI video generation using its Blitz Mode and TT-Deploy software stack.
Hardware in the Galaxy Blackhole line starts at $110,000, as Tenstorrent pushes its RISC-V-based platform as a lower-cost alternative to GPUs.

