Microsoft is unveiling its next-generation Maia 300 AI chip as early as September, with over 300,000 units ordered from TSMC for 2027 delivery, as the tech giant makes a bold push to reduce its dependence on Nvidia's GPUs for Azure cloud AI workloads — and is already courting Anthropic as an early adopter.
A powerful new open-source inference engine called h3.c now enables native AI video generation on Apple Silicon Macs, slashing render times nearly in half using Metal GPU acceleration and cutting memory usage from 36.5 GiB to just 2 GiB.
Meta Superintelligence Labs launches Muse Glimmer, a powerful 30-billion-parameter open-source AI model that runs locally on consumer devices like MacBooks and PCs, supporting over 100 languages, multimodal input, and advanced agentic workflows — all under 20GB of memory.
The US government is investigating a loophole allowing Chinese AI firms to bypass export restrictions by renting computing power hosted in third-party countries to access advanced Nvidia chips, following a series of Chinese AI breakthroughs that reveal the limits of Washington's current controls.
Anthropic is building a custom AI chip design team to co-design hardware and models, as surging demand for Claude outpaces existing infrastructure partnerships with AWS, Google, Nvidia, and AMD, with Samsung being scouted as a potential manufacturing partner.
Anthropic signs a massive $10 billion, six-year cloud compute deal with AI startup Volta to build a 133-megawatt data center in Norway powered by Nvidia's cutting-edge Vera Rubin chips, as the AI company aggressively expands its infrastructure amid fierce industry competition.
Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) launch as a powerful new class of multimodal AI supporting text, vision, and audio, optimized for fast on-device and edge deployment across major inference runtimes with flexible formats including GGUF, MLX, and ONNX.
Apple seeks a preliminary injunction against OpenAI over alleged stolen trade secrets involving two former employees, but OpenAI fights back by releasing text messages and emails it claims prove its innocence, as the high-stakes legal battle threatens to delay OpenAI's AI hardware launch and shake investor confidence ahead of its IPO.
AMD's MI355X GPUs are outperforming NVIDIA's B200 on the massive 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3 AI model, delivering 3.8× higher throughput per node at roughly 2.4× lower cost, thanks to key engineering fixes including speculative decoding patches and attention head optimizations that cut prefill times by up to 3×.
Chinese AI startup Moonshot is leveraging a cluster of 20,000 Nvidia chips through an Alibaba deal to power its Kimi AI models, including the newly launched open-source Kimi K3, which rivals OpenAI and Anthropic on key benchmarks, underscoring China's continued reliance on Western semiconductors to fuel its booming AI race.