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Juan Pedro TomásIn Saudi Arabia, Groq is collaborating with Aramco Digital to build what it calls the ‘world’s largest inferencing data center’ In sum – what to know: AI data center investment – Groq sees the Kingdom’s surplus energy and land as ideal for large-scale AI infrastructure. Expanded collaboration – Groq and Aramco Digital plan to build the world’s largest AI inferencing …
A Bloomberg report noted that the AI data center will be jointly funded by Nvidia and the German operator In sum – what to know: $1.2 billion joint investment – Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom will co-finance a large-scale AI data center in Germany to accelerate the country’s industrial and digital modernization. SAP to anchor new facility – German software leader …
Digital Realty CEO Andy Power said the company continues to see a robust pipeline of demand from AI-oriented use cases In sum – what to know: AI drives 50% of bookings – Digital Realty says half its recent deals are tied to AI use cases, underscoring how deeply AI is shaping data-center demand. Urban power constraints persist – Power shortages …
SoftBank announced plans in April to invest $30 billion in OpenAI’s for-profit subsidiary, with $10 billion of that to be syndicated to co-investors In sum – what to know: SoftBank finalizes $30B OpenAI backing – The board approved a $22.5 billion payout to complete its planned $30 billion investment in OpenAI. Payment tied to corporate restructuring – Full funding depends …
Sean Kinney One stop at a time Author’s note: I’m one of those AuDHD people you encounter in tech, media and tech media. CES and Las Vegas are exhausting, but I wanted to get this written while still having some fun. So, I landed on a format where I write a section, have a drink, take the monorail one stop, then repeat. …
Christian de LooperYou don’t have to own the hardware for AI. But should you? Every organization building with AI eventually has to decide whether to own the hardware or rent it. This isn’t necessarily always a financial calculation. It touches data security, talent pipelines, hardware obsolescence, and the fundamentally unpredictable nature of AI workloads. A startup spinning up its first large language …
Will open-source chips democratize the industry? In the early 1990s, a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds released a free operating system kernel called Linux. This new operating system, together with projects like Apache, proved that collaborative, open-source development could produce software that competes with and surpasses propriety alternatives. These days, Linux runs on everything from smartphones to supercomputers, and open-source …
Non-exclusive agreement transfers key talent and technology while Groq remains independent In sum – what we know: Nvidia and chip startup Groq have announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement reportedly worth around $20 billion. The announcement turned heads immediately — not just because of the price tag, which clocks in at nearly three times Groq’s $6.9 billion valuation from just months earlier, but …
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