Groq Raises $350M to Pivot to Neocloud
Groq raised $350 million to pivot from AI chipmaker to neocloud provider, valuing the company at $3.5 billion.
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The chips and systems powering modern AI — GPUs, accelerators, data-center infrastructure, and the hardware roadmaps from Nvidia, AMD, and custom silicon makers driving training and inference.
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AMD Introduces Agent Swarms for Software Engineering
AMD is developing agent swarms to transform software workflows, with a prototype expected by 2025.
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OpenAI Signs Record Ohio Data Center Lease With Nvidia Backing Up to $105 Billion
OpenAI has signed the largest data center lease to date, with Nvidia guaranteeing up to $105 billion for the project.
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Nvidia Invests $1.5B in SoftBank Data Center Developer
Nvidia is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a data center developer linked to OpenAI, to supply compute infrastructure for its Ports-Pike facility.
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Intel's New CPU Outperforms NVIDIA in AI Workloads
Intel's latest CPU achieves 1.6x speed boost over NVIDIA's GPU in AI tasks, signaling a shift in hardware preferences.
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Nvidia’s 500B Plan Aims to Revive Aging GPUs
Nvidia has secured up to $500 billion in commitments from major financial firms to build AI data centers, with a focus on creating a secondary market for older GPUs.
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FP8 KV-Cache Boosts Intel Arc Pro B70 Inference Capacity
Intel Arc Pro B70 doubles KV-cache capacity with FP8 quantization, enhancing long-context inference throughput by 42.3% for Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct.
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Nvidia Guarantees Chip Value to Unlock $500 Billion in AI Infrastructure Financing
Nvidia and six financial firms plan to mobilize over $500 billion in capital for AI infrastructure, with Nvidia guaranteeing up to 25% of its chips' residual value.
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Amazon's Texas Data Center Could Become Largest U.S. Climate Polluter
Amazon's planned data center in Texas could become the largest climate polluter in the U.S., emitting 33 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, according to The New York Times.
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Discovered Materials Uses AI to Hunt Cooler Chip Materials
Discovered Materials, a startup backed by Lightspeed India Partners, closed a $9 million seed round to develop AI-driven materials for more efficient integrated circuits.
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OpenAI's First Smart Speaker Set for 2027 at Over $300
OpenAI's first smart speaker is expected to launch in 2027 at a price above $300, according to Bloomberg.
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AMD Acquires Taalas, Startup That Embeds AI Models Into Silicon
AMD has acquired Taalas, a Canadian startup that embeds AI models directly into silicon, with a demo chip achieving 16,000 tokens per second for Llama 3.1-8B.