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Juan Pedro TomásUnder the deal, Hitachi will supply power transmission and distribution equipment to OpenAI’s data centers In sum – what to know: Hitachi power – Hitachi will supply transmission and distribution systems to OpenAI, helping to reduce energy consumption across its global AI infra network. Stargate project – Hitachi joins SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX in the Stargate initiative to scale compute capacity through …
OpenAI will use AMD as a core compute partner for large-scale AI workloads, extending an existing collaboration In sum – what to know: 6GW of AMD GPUs – The multi-year agreement begins with a 1GW deployment of MI450 GPUs in 2026, expanding to 6GW across future generations. Equity incentives – OpenAI receives up to 160 million AMD shares, vesting as …
Groq currently operates data centers across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, with new sites planned in Asia In sum – what to know: Post-2025 expansion – Groq plans to exceed its 2025 buildout of 12 data centers, with new sites coming online across Asia and other regions next year. Surging AI demand – Chairman Jonathan Ross said …
The acquisition would extend BlackRock’s AI-linked portfolio just a year after acquiring GIP for $12.5 billion In sum – what to know: BlackRock eyes $40B acquisition – GIP is nearing a deal to buy Aligned Data Centers, which operates 78 facilities in the Americas, in one of the year’s largest infrastructure transactions. AI demand drives M&A – The planned purchase …
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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