Alibaba’s Chip and Model Reveal Reframes the US-China AI Race
Chip and Model: Alibaba unveiled a new AI chip and a 10 trillion parameter model plan Tuesday, sending shares up 3% and sharpening the US-China chip race.
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Nvidia’s Huang Bets Chip Sales Double as AI Rules Fight Shifts
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang projects doubled chip shipments next year and argues AI safety rules belong in products, not models, as regulators debate both.
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Mexican Raid Exposes Cartel Crypto Farm’s Hidden GPU Power Theft
Mexican authorities seized 300 GPUs, satellite gear and transformers from a cartel-run crypto mining farm in Puebla tapping stolen hydroelectric power.
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Hugging Face $12.9 Billion Acquisition Reveals Critical AI Chip Gap
Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face acquisition and its latest earnings are fueling fresh comparisons with Broadcom’s custom AI chip growth.
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AMD MI430X Chips To Power Finland’s €420M LUMI-AI Supercomputer
AMD’s Instinct MI430X chips will power Finland’s $420 million LUMI-AI supercomputer, a EuroHPC deal that triples the cost of the original 2021 LUMI machine.
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OpenAI Ships Jalapeño, Its First Inference Chip
OpenAI began testing Jalapeño, its first inference chip, saying the new hardware beats the Nvidia GPUs it rents on speed and power efficiency.
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AI Chips Breakthrough, Apple’s Powerful M6 and M5 Ultra Dominate Desktops
AI chips power Apple’s new M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio, with up to 512GB unified memory for private local AI inference tasks.
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Jalapeño Chip Posts Breakthrough Results, Crushing Performance
OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip posted first results on Aug. 25, pairing faster AI responses with lower power use and a push to cut data-center serving costs.
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OpScale’s Breakthrough Slashes GPU Waste by 36%
OpScale is a new operator-level autoscaling framework that cuts GPU count by 36% and power by 28% for LLM inference without breaching latency targets.
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AMD Acquires Taalas, a Chip Startup Whose Silicon Runs One Model Only
AMD has acquired Toronto-based Taalas, a startup building chips that run only one AI model.
