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Nvidia Eyes Investment in Elon Musk’s xAI, Seeking to Join Multibillion-Dollar Funding Round
November 05, 2024 – According to informed sources, Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is planning to raise 5billionatavaluationofapproximately45 billion. Potential investors include venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Vy Capital. Reports from The Information indicate that xAI representatives have disclosed to potential investors that Nvidia has engaged in discussions regarding xAI’s…
Chip Industry Shakeup: Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm in Bidding War for Intel
November 02, 2024 – Reports indicate that in the race to acquire Intel, not only is Qualcomm deeply interested, but Apple and Samsung are also throwing their hats into the ring. For Qualcomm, which is currently embroiled in a dispute with Arm, the prospect of owning x86 IP is particularly enticing. Meanwhile, Apple, which already…
NVIDIA CEO Confirms and Addresses Major Blackwell GPU Defect
October 25, 2024 – Earlier this year, NVIDIA made waves in the tech industry with the announcement of their new high-performance GPU, Blackwell, in March. The company then proceeded to announce sampling in August, followed by large-scale production. It seemed like everything was going according to plan as NVIDIA began delivering the product to customers…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to Visit Thailand in December, Investment Plans to be Announced
October 24, 2024 – Pichai Naripthaphan, the Thai Minister of Commerce, revealed to Bloomberg on the 21st of this month that Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, is scheduled to visit Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, in December. During this visit, Huang is expected to announce the company’s investment plans in the country. While Pichai Naripthaphan…
Microsoft and NVIDIA Pour Resources into AI for Healthcare Innovations
October 22, 2024 – In a major development, technology giants Microsoft and NVIDIA have announced a collaboration to bolster artificial intelligence (AI) startups in the health and life sciences sectors with a plethora of resources. Microsoft has unveiled its “Microsoft for Startups” initiative, offering eligible startups a generous Azure credit of up to 150,000overfouryears.TheseenterpriseswillgainaccesstoavarietyofAIlargelanguagemodels,includingAzureOpenAIService,Meta’sLlama,andPhi.Additionally,theywillreceiveproductivityservicesworthupto200,000, including…
NVIDIA’s nGPT: Revolutionizing AI Training with a 20x Speed Boost
October 21, 2024 – Recent reports indicate that NVIDIA’s latest research could potentially revolutionize the future of artificial intelligence. The company’s research team has introduced a novel neural network architecture called the Normalized Transformer (nGPT). This innovative architecture performs representation learning on a hypersphere, resulting in a remarkable increase in the training speed of large…
Lenovo and NVIDIA Unveil Groundbreaking Liquid-Cooled AI Server
October 16, 2024 – At its annual global innovation event, Tech World 2024, Lenovo Group unveiled the sixth-generation vertical liquid cooling product, ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune, designed to power generative AI computations. During the conference, Lenovo announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to introduce the Lenovo Hybrid AI Comprehensive Advantage Set. Furthermore, they launched the ThinkSystem SC777…
NVIDIA Predicts $20 Trillion Economic Boost from AI Adoption Across Industries
October 9, 2024 – On Tuesday, NVIDIA hosted a three-day “AI Summit” in the United States, where Bob Pette, Vice President and General Manager of NVIDIA’s Enterprise Platform Business, emphasized that the focus of the summit was more on the practical applications of AI rather than new product launches. Pette highlighted that industries worldwide are…
NVIDIA Makes Significant Investment in Sakana AI, Eyes Japan’s AI Growth
September 05, 2024 – According to Bloomberg, NVIDIA Corporation has participated in a funding round of over $100 million for Sakana AI, a startup in Tokyo, Japan. This marks one of the larger investments made by the American chipmaker in the emerging AI sector of Japan. The report stated that Sakana AI completed its Series…
NVIDIA’s Culture of Late Nights: Employees Reveal Daily Grind Until 2 AM, with 10 Meetings a Day
August 29, 2024 – Amidst the proliferation of millionaires fostered by NVIDIA’s success, a veil of intense work pressures and a lifestyle devoid of leisurely indulgence in their newfound wealth has emerged, according to a Bloomberg report. NVIDIA employees reportedly operate on a near-constant seven-day workweek, with late-night sessions frequently stretching until the wee hours…