Business
U.S. Lifts Ban on AI Chips for China: Market opens for Nvidia and AMD GPUs, following a White House meeting with Jensen Huang
Nvidia will resume sales of H20 processors in China.
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Business
Amazon’s Constellation of Compute: Amazon plans to spend tens of billions on AI infrastructure with Project Rainier
Amazon revealed new details of its plan to build a constellation of massive data centers and connect them into an “ultracluster.” Customer Number One: Anthropic.
Business
U.S. to Supply Middle Eastern AI Hubs: Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, and others strike deals with Saudi Arabia’s Humain and G42 in the UAE
The United States government announced sweeping agreements to sell tens of billions of dollars worth of AI technology and services to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Business
U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips: U.S. makes new rules for AI chip export rules to China, launches Nvidia investigation
The U.S. government escalated its long-running effort to block China’s access to cutting-edge AI hardware.
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.
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.