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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 …
Christian de LooperNew Broadcom agreements secure long-term TPU supply and 3.5 gigawatts of future capacity for Anthropic In sum – what we know: The Broadcom-Google-Anthropic love triangle continues. The three companies have announced a number of major new deals, largely focused on Broadcom. Under the first agreement, Broadcom will design and supply Google’s custom Tensor Processing Units through 2031. The second deal …
Cognichip just got $60 million in Series A funding to bring its concept to life In sum – what we know: There’s a ton of hype around AI chips, but what about AI-designed chips. That’s the idea behind Cognichip, which is building what it describes as the first physics-informed AI foundation model for semiconductor design — and it just closed a …
Nvidia’s big Marvell deal will see the two expand the NVLink Fusion platform In sum – what we know: Nvidia’s march into AI data centers continues. The company has announced a $2 billion investment in Marvell, alongside a significantly expanded technical collaboration covering AI infrastructure and next-gen telecom networks. The investment highlights where Nvidia thinks the next bottlenecks in the …
TurboQuant achieves up to 8x speed improvements on modern GPUs without sacrificing model accuracy Google Research has announced TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that could meaningfully change the economics of running large AI models. According to Google’s benchmarks, it shrinks memory usage by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speed improvements on modern GPUs — with no accuracy loss. If …
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