Huawei announces new AI infrastructure as Nvidia gets locked out of China

Admin9 months ago02 mins

Tech giant Huawei unveiled new AI infrastructure meant to help boost compute power and allow the company to better compete with rival chipmaker Nvidia. At a keynote at its Huawei Connect conference on Thursday, Shenzhen, China-based Huawei announced new SuperPoD Interconnect technology that can link together up to 15,000 graphics cards, including Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, to increase compute power. This tech seems to be a competitor for Nvidia’s NVLink infrastructure, which facilitates high-speed communication between AI chips. Technology like this is critical for…

OpenAI and Oracle reportedly ink historic cloud computing deal

Admin9 months ago03 mins

Oracle sent its shares soaring after markets closed yesterday after reporting that it signed multiple multi-billion-dollar contracts with several customers. Now, we have an idea of who those customers might be. Oracle signed a deal with OpenAI for the AI company to purchase $300 billion worth of compute power over a span of about five…

NeoLogic wants to build more energy-efficient CPUs for AI data centers

Admin10 months ago05 mins

When NeoLogic started building its more energy-efficient CPUs for AI servers, folks in the industry told its founders Avi Messica and Ziv Leshem that their idea wasn’t viable. “Most of the people that we have met say it’s impossible,” Messica told TechCrunch. “Some of them told us, at the time, that the innovation is impossible…

How a once-tiny research lab helped Nvidia become a trillion-dollar company

How a once-tiny research lab helped Nvidia become a $4 trillion-dollar company

Admin10 months ago012 mins

When Bill Dally joined Nvidia’s research lab in 2009, it employed only about a dozen people and was focused on ray tracing, a rendering technique used in computer graphics. That once-small research lab now employs more than 400 people, who have helped transform Nvidia from a video game GPU startup in the nineties to a…

A backlog at the Commerce Department is reportedly stalling Nvidia’s H20 chip licenses

Admin10 months ago02 mins

Earlier in July, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick gave chipmakers like Nvidia the green light to start selling certain AI chips in China again, but his department is said to be holding things up. According to reporting from Reuters, Nvidia has yet to receive a license to sell its H20 AI chips. The U.S….

Amazon posts weak cloud growth while rivals Google, Microsoft thrive

Admin10 months ago07 mins

“Amazon posts weak cloud growth while rivals Google, Microsoft thrive” Amazon on Thursday forecast third-quarter sales above market estimates, but failed to live up to lofty expectations for its Amazon Web Services cloud computing unit after rivals handily beat expectations. Shares fell by more than 3% in after-hours trading after finishing regular trading up 1.7% to $234.11. Both Google-parent Alphabet and Microsoft posted…

Enterprises prefer Anthropic’s AI models over anyone else’s, including OpenAI

Admin10 months ago04 mins

AI research lab Anthropic’s AI models are now the top choice for enterprises, surpassing OpenAI. Anthropic now holds 32% of the enterprise LLM market share by usage, according to a report from Menlo Ventures released on Thursday. OpenAI holds the second-largest market share by usage among enterprises with 25%. The figure marks a strong reversal…

Observe continues to adapt to the changing world of software observability

Admin10 months ago05 mins

Observe, an observability platform, was founded in 2017 in response to the changing nature of software observability. Companies started pushing out new versions of their software more frequently — and producing significantly more data because of it. Now, Observe is responding to the latest big shift in technology: AI. San Mateo-based Observe helps companies get…

Trump’s AI Action Plan aims to block chip exports to China but lacks key details

Admin11 months ago06 mins

The Trump administration wants its AI technology to be considered an industry leader both on home soil and abroad. But it also doesn’t want the U.S.’s AI prowess to empower or embolden a foreign adversary. That’s quite the balance to strike. If President Trump’s AI Action Plan, which was released on Wednesday, is any indicator,…

Instead of selling to Meta, AI chip startup FuriosaAI signed a huge customer

Admin11 months ago05 mins

South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI announced a partnership on Tuesday to supply its AI chip, RNGD, to enterprises using LG AI Research‘s recently unveiled EXAONE platform. RNGD is optimized for running large language models (LLMs) and just last week, the Korean tech giant LG unveiled its next-generation hybrid AI model EXAONE 4.0. The collaboration…