Meta commits to buying millions of Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin GPUs in a multiyear deal; a source says Meta's in-house AI chip strategy had technical challenges
Social media group will purchase millions of chips even as it tries to develop its own AI hardware
Meta commits to buy millions of Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin GPUs in a multiyear deal; source: Meta's in-house AI chip strategy has suffered technical challenges
Social media group will purchase millions of chips even as it tries to develop its own AI hardware
A court filing in the iyO-OpenAI trademark case reveals that OpenAI won't use the name “io” for its AI device, which won't ship before the end of February 2027
A court filing in a trademark lawsuit reveals OpenAI won't use the name “io” for its AI hardware device, which isn't expected to ship until 2027.
Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon
The milestone underscores Alibaba's growing footprint in AI hardware, as Chinese firms accelerate efforts to build home-grown processors
Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic portability software for AI workloads, raised a $28M Series A co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon
AI software startup Lemurian Labs has pivoted away from AI hardware, having raised a $28-million series A to build its AI software stack.
The UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware startups via guaranteed “first customer” payments, and estimates its AI market to be worth over £72B
New compute paradigms can deliver orders of magnitude performance gains over incumbent platforms. …
Sources: former Databricks VP of AI Naveen Rao is in talks to raise $1B led by a16z at a $5B valuation for his new AI hardware startup Unconventional
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Sources: Nvidia spent $900M+ in cash and stock to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and others at the AI hardware startup and to license its GPU-connecting tech
Nvidia has just shelled out over $900 million to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and other employees at the artificial intelligence …
GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI
and he's not alone Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : GPT-5 is here and Gary Marcus is not impressed Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ amid rough roll-out ...
In a video and a letter signed “Sam & Jony”, Altman and Ive say io, founded in 2024 by Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan will develop new products
Update! It's this: — openai.com/sam-and-jony/ Emma Jacobs / @emmavj : Your dad introducing his new partner — openai.com/sam-and-jony/ Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : but what are they actually making????...