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Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs
Nvidia announced this week that Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR were willing to commit up…
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Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), an industry group spearheaded by Nvidia that has already grown to…
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Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research
After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder and alignment lead…
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As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
Several AI companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia have signed an open letter urging policymakers…
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Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers
AI infrastructure company Infinity announced a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation on Monday from investors…
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Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is designing a new server chip to help its in-house Gemini models operate more…
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What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit
Nvidia’s chief Jensen Huang spent two days — July 15 and 16 — in Tokyo, courting Japan’s industrial…
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Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia
Gradium, a Paris-based startup that offers voice AI models, reopened its seed round to new investors, including Nvidia,…
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Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung
Back in April, Reuters reported that Anthropic was toying with the idea of producing its own AI chips…
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What happened at Nvidia GTC: NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a $1 trillion bet
CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour…