Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research

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 Ilya Sutskever, has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.  The deal, which includes an undisclosed investment, will give Safe Superintelligence (SSI) access to Nvidia’s Vera Rubin GPU platform,…

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Inference startup Infinity raises M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Athropic researchers

Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Athropic researchers

AI infrastructure company Infinity announced a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation on Monday from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.   The startup is building software to make it easier for AI chips to run AI models. One big reason Nvidia became the top player is not just its…

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What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit

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 and chip-supply elite, weeks after a keynote in Taiwan, and months after a visit to South Korea. He left with deals spanning Japan’s entire tech ecosystem: a national AI factory, partnerships with the country’s leading robotics companies,…

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Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia)

Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia)

Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending.   OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a growing list of companies building their way out of single-supplier risk. The goal is less of a…

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