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How Nvidia Uses AI to Design Chips: Chipmaker's models design circuits, verify designs, and test new layouts
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How Nvidia Uses AI to Design Chips: Chipmaker's models design circuits, verify designs, and test new layouts

Nvidia’s chief scientist dreams of telling an AI model to design a new GPU, then skiing for a couple days while the system does the job.

May 8, 20263 min read
Open-Source Speed Demon: Nvidia’s open Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B model sets new paces in its class
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Open-Source Speed Demon: Nvidia’s open Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B model sets new paces in its class

Nvidia, the dominant supplier of AI chips, released a competitive open-source large language model whose speed tops its size class — the first open-weights leader to come from the United States since last year, when Meta delivered Llama 4.

March 27, 20264 min read
DeepSeek Snubs Nvidia for Huawei: DeepSeek made its upcoming 4.0 model available for performance testing to Chinese chipmakers but not U.S, ones
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DeepSeek Snubs Nvidia for Huawei: DeepSeek made its upcoming 4.0 model available for performance testing to Chinese chipmakers but not U.S, ones

DeepSeek, the Chinese developer of outstanding open-weights models, has withheld an upcoming update of its flagship model from U.S. chip makers, a move that intensifies the AI rivalry between the U.S. and China.

March 20, 20262 min read
Can Local AI Stand In for the Cloud?: Stanford and Together.AI researchers chart edge models’ performance in intelligence per watt
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Can Local AI Stand In for the Cloud?: Stanford and Together.AI researchers chart edge models’ performance in intelligence per watt

Projected demand for output from large language models is spurring a massive buildout of data centers. Researchers asked whether smaller models running on local devices could meaningfully lighten that load.

February 27, 20263 min read
China’s AI Chip Industry Takes Root: China banned GPUs and TPUs from U.S. manufacturers to promote domestic chips
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China’s AI Chip Industry Takes Root: China banned GPUs and TPUs from U.S. manufacturers to promote domestic chips

The United States government’s effort to deprive China of AI computing power backfired as China turned the tables and banned U.S.-designed chips.

December 26, 20253 min read
Generated, Editable Virtual Spaces: World Labs makes Marble world model public, adds Chisel editing tool
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Generated, Editable Virtual Spaces: World Labs makes Marble world model public, adds Chisel editing tool

Models that generate 3D spaces typically generate them as users move through them without generating a persistent world to be explored later. A new model produces 3D worlds that can be exported and modified.

December 3, 20252 min read
Microsoft and Anthropic Form Alliance: Claude becomes the first leading language model available from all three cloud giants
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Microsoft and Anthropic Form Alliance: Claude becomes the first leading language model available from all three cloud giants

Having recently revised its agreement with longtime partner OpenAI, Microsoft pledged to invest billions of dollars in Anthropic, one of OpenAI’s top competitors.

November 26, 20253 min read
Fine-Tuning Simplified: Thinking Machines’ new Tinker API makes it easier to fine-tune models on many GPUs
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Fine-Tuning Simplified: Thinking Machines’ new Tinker API makes it easier to fine-tune models on many GPUs

The first offering from Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, aims to simplify — and democratize — the process of fine-tuning AI models.

October 15, 20252 min read
OpenAI Strengthens Ties With AMD: OpenAI’s latest multibillion-dollar chip deal would give it 6 gigawatts of computing power and up to 10 percent of AMD
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OpenAI Strengthens Ties With AMD: OpenAI’s latest multibillion-dollar chip deal would give it 6 gigawatts of computing power and up to 10 percent of AMD

OpenAI, strapped for processing power to drive a worldwide constellation of planned data centers, turned to Nvidia’s archrival AMD.

October 15, 20254 min read
OpenAI On the Road to Trillion-Dollar Spending: OpenAI partners with Oracle, Nvidia, Softbank, and more to build out 20 gigawatts of data center capacity
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OpenAI On the Road to Trillion-Dollar Spending: OpenAI partners with Oracle, Nvidia, Softbank, and more to build out 20 gigawatts of data center capacity

A flurry of announcements brought into sharper focus OpenAI’s plans to build what may amount to trillions of dollars of global computing capacity.

October 1, 20253 min read
OpenAI Turns to Oracle for Compute: A new $30 billion, 4.5 gigawatt data center offshoot of the Stargate Project
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OpenAI Turns to Oracle for Compute: A new $30 billion, 4.5 gigawatt data center offshoot of the Stargate Project

OpenAI is working with Oracle to build its next chunk of processing power, a $30 billion outgrowth of the partners’ $500 billion Stargate project and a sign of OpenAI’s ongoing thirst for computation.

August 20, 20252 min read
India Pushes to Build Indigenous AI: India launches GPU network and talent programs to boost local LLMs
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India Pushes to Build Indigenous AI: India launches GPU network and talent programs to boost local LLMs

India, which has limited funding and large numbers of languages and dialects, is redoubling its efforts to build native large language models.

August 13, 20253 min read
U.S. Lifts Ban on AI Chips for China: Market opens for Nvidia and AMD GPUs, following a White House meeting with Jensen Huang
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U.S. Lifts Ban on AI Chips for China: Market opens for Nvidia and AMD GPUs, following a White House meeting with Jensen Huang

Nvidia will resume sales of H20 processors in China.

July 30, 20253 min read
Amazon’s Constellation of Compute: Amazon plans to spend tens of billions on AI infrastructure with Project Rainier
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Amazon’s Constellation of Compute: Amazon plans to spend tens of billions on AI infrastructure with Project Rainier

Amazon revealed new details of its plan to build a constellation of massive data centers and connect them into an “ultracluster.” Customer Number One: Anthropic.

July 2, 20252 min read
U.S. to Supply Middle Eastern AI Hubs: Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, and others strike deals with Saudi Arabia’s Humain and G42 in the UAE
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U.S. to Supply Middle Eastern AI Hubs: Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, and others strike deals with Saudi Arabia’s Humain and G42 in the UAE

The United States government announced sweeping agreements to sell tens of billions of dollars worth of AI technology and services to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

May 21, 20253 min read

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