Business
Big AI Spending Continues to Rise: Tech giants increase capital spending to meet growing infrastructure demands
Top AI companies announced plans to dramatically ramp up their spending on AI infrastructure.
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Machine Learning Research
Generated Chip Designs Work in Mysterious Ways: Researchers used deep learning and an evolutionary algorithm to design chips in minutes
Designing integrated circuits typically requires years of human expertise. Recent work set AI to the task with surprising results.
Hardware
AI Supercomputer on Your Desk: Nvidia introduced Project Digits, a $3,000 home supercomputer for AI models
Nvidia’s new desktop computer is built specifically to run large AI models.
Hardware
Garbage Out: Generative AI and GPU boom spawns growing e-waste problem
Rapid progress in generative AI comes with a hidden environmental cost: mountains of obsolete hardware.
Business
AI Power Couple Recommits: Amazon deepens Anthropic partnership with $4 billion investment
Amazon and Anthropic expanded their partnership, potentially strengthening Amazon Web Services’ AI infrastructure and lengthening the high-flying startup’s runway.
Hardware
Further Chip Restrictions on China: TSMC stops advanced chip production for China on U.S. orders
The largest manufacturer of AI chips told its Chinese customers it would stop fabricating their most advanced designs, further limiting China’s access to AI hardware.
Machine Learning Research
No Game Engine Required: AI creates an interactive Minecraft-like world in real time
A real-time video generator lets you explore an open-ended, interactive virtual world — a video game without a game engine.
Machine Learning Research
24 Hours on an Old Consumer GPU: Optimizing LLMs for low-resource hardware
BERT, a large language model released in 2018 and built upon the then-new transformer architecture, marked a paradigm shift in AI.
Hardware
Nvidia Revs AI Engine: All about Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture and B200 GPU
Nvidia’s latest chip promises to boost AI’s speed and energy efficiency.
Hardware
Competition Heats Up in AI Chips: Huawei rises as key AI chip supplier amid U.S. export bans.
Huawei is emerging as an important supplier of AI chips. Amid a U.S. ban on exports of advanced chips to China, demand for Huawei’s AI chips is so intense that the company is limiting production of the chip that powers one of its most popular smartphones so it can serve the AI market.
Hardware
GPU Data Centers Strain Grid Power: AI's electricity demands spur an expansion of power sources.
The AI boom is taxing power grids and pushing builders of data centers to rethink their sources of electricity.
Hardware
More Cloud GPUs on the Way: Voltage Park offers Nvidia GPUs at $1.89/hour for startups and researchers
A new cloud-computing company promises to provide scarce AI processing power to startups and researchers. Voltage Park, a nonprofit north of Silicon Valley, will offer processing power from 24,000 top-of-the-line Nvidia H100 graphics processing units (GPUs)...