Anthropic’s $5B AMD Bet Delivers A Brutal Blow To Nvidia’s Dominance
AI Compute War: AMD committed up to $5 billion to deploy two gigawatts of MI450 GPUs for Anthropic. Here is what the deal means for the AI compute market.
AI news and analysis covering the labs, models and infrastructure behind the industry: what OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta and Mistral ship, and what each release changes for the people building on top of it.
AI Compute War: AMD committed up to $5 billion to deploy two gigawatts of MI450 GPUs for Anthropic. Here is what the deal means for the AI compute market.
RAM shortage as OpenAI and Anthropic absorb memory supply has pushed DDR5 spot prices to two to four times 2024 levels for PC builders.
Big Tech Earnings: Wall Street is demanding returns on $300B in AI spending as Microsoft, Meta and Amazon report earnings. The implicit truce is over.
AMD Helios rack has begun shipping with GPUs packing 3.2 trillion transistors, challenging Nvidia’s dominance in full-stack AI systems.
With Apple settling for $250 million over misleading claims about advanced AI features, the tech industry can no longer drive upgrade cycles on vaporware and marketing spin. It’s mid-2024. iPhone sales are sliding in key markets, and that’s a problem for the company that makes them. At the same time, generative AI is sweeping through…
Chinese AI models from Kimi and DeepSeek are undercutting US rivals by up to 90% on price, forcing the global AI market toward commodity dynamics in 2026.
Microsoft now buys GPU compute capacity from Mistral AI, reversing their 2024 investor-customer relationship in a deal reshaping European AI infrastructure.
South Korea’s 200MW AI Factory will expand at NAVER’s GAK Sejong site, using $10 billion in Brookfield-backed funding to bolster AI sovereignty.
DeepSeek funding pause halts its second round, delaying outside capital for the AI lab behind R1, whose January release sent Nvidia shares down 17%.
Data Centers in People’s homes are being installed by Span, Nvidia and PulteGroup, easing AI grid strain as hyperscale sites draw 100 MW.