Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September
In a bid to lower its GPU costs amid an unprecedented component shortage, Meta is on track to start making the latest versions of its AI-specific chip in September, Reuters…
Oxmiq, which aims to combine GPUs, CPUs, and a tensor engine into a single block of IP that it can license, raised $35M led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fudomo (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
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Microsoft tests Windows AI features on RTX GPUs, not just NPUs
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: PCWorld reports that Microsoft is expanding its Copilot+ AI features beyond NPU-only requirements to include Nvidia RTX GPUs through experimental Windows App…
Google and Nvidia are helping Apple with Apple Foundation Model Cloud Pro, which Apple says is comparable to Gemini frontier models and runs on Nvidia GPUs (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
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I tried a skinny RTX 5080. It fixed the worst thing about flagship GPUs
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Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify the spend (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)
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AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch
NASA announced that it will launch the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope into orbit in September 2026, eight months ahead of schedule. The new space telescope is expected to deliver…
SpaceX’s S-1 excerpts list “manufacturing our own GPUs” among the “substantial capital expenditures” it is undertaking, with the size of the expenditure TBD (Reuters)
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