Nvidia is reportedly acquiring AI model hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a move that could give the chipmaker dominant control over the open-weight AI ecosystem while countering rivals OpenAI and Anthropic's push into custom hardware.
Anthropic secures a massive $45 billion cloud deal with UK-based Nscale, locking in 460 megawatts of AI compute capacity at a West Virginia data center powered by Nvidia's next-gen Vera Rubin chips, set to go live in 2027.
Anthropic locks in a massive $45 billion, six-year cloud computing deal with Nscale, securing 460 megawatts of AI infrastructure power from a West Virginia data center as the company positions itself for a potential IPO.
Chinese AI lab Z.ai unmasks the viral anonymous model 'Ox Alpha' as GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320-billion-parameter powerhouse processing 100 trillion tokens daily on Chinese chips, rivaling Claude and Gemini at a fraction of the cost.
Anthropic signs a massive $45 billion, six-year compute deal with British firm Nscale, powered by Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips, as the AI giant accelerates an aggressive infrastructure expansion spree totaling tens of billions of dollars to keep pace with rivals like OpenAI, Google, and Meta.
Waymo surpasses 200 million fully autonomous miles and reveals the cutting-edge AI and sensor technology — including multimodal sensors, HD maps, Gemini-powered Vision-Language Models, and an independent onboard safety validator — driving its push toward true Level 4 self-driving at scale.
FreeToken is revolutionizing local AI by enabling anyone with a gaming PC to run massive 290B+ parameter AI models at interactive speeds, using an open-source inference engine with smart CPU-GPU co-execution and semantic caching — no expensive cloud subscription required.
Perplexity and Nvidia launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent platform running entirely on users' own hardware that eliminates cloud costs, targeting privacy-sensitive industries like law, healthcare, and finance — though it currently requires 24GB VRAM and is limited to Linux machines with RTX GPUs.
FastVideo, a new open-source framework, delivers a groundbreaking 50x video generation speedup across NVIDIA GPUs, Apple Silicon, and cloud platforms, featuring sparse distillation, LoRA finetuning, and real-time inference capabilities, with recent updates adding synchronized video-audio generation and Apple Silicon-optimized models.
OpenAI unveils its first custom AI inference chip, 'Jalapeño,' claiming industry-leading throughput per kilowatt and lower token latency than competing systems across major model families, while simultaneously expanding its data center infrastructure and driving down AI costs through compounding efficiency gains in hardware, software, and model optimization.