Nvidia says Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI set to deploy at scale in Q3
Nvidia says Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI set to deploy at scale in Q3

Nvidia confirmed on Monday that its Vera Rubin platform has reached full production, with Ian Buck, the company’s vice president of accelerated computing, telling reporters at Nvidia headquarters that systems are now shipping to customers including Ope…

A cloud tenant could rattle the power grid with nothing but a rented GPU, researchers say
A cloud tenant could rattle the power grid with nothing but a rented GPU, researchers say

AI data centres already strain the grid just by running. A new paper asks a darker question: what if a tenant tried to break it on purpose? Three researchers at Zhejiang University set out the idea in a preprint called Bit2Watt, accepted to a leading h…

This startup raised $15M to break Nvidia’s tightest grip on AI, its software
This startup raised $15M to break Nvidia’s tightest grip on AI, its software

The pitch is bold for a seed round. Infinity says it can strip away the one advantage that has kept Nvidia untouchable. It has just raised money to try. The company closed a $15 million seed round at a $100 million valuation on Monday, it announced. Ba…

NVIDIA’s new AI can detect deepfake videos in just 22 milliseconds

NVIDIA has introduced Synthetic Video Detector, an AI tool that detects AI-generated videos with up to 92% accuracy in milliseconds.

Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.

A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside
A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside

For a year, one question has hung over China’s fast-improving AI models: what are they actually running on? Z.AI has just given part of the answer. It has built a huge data centre that uses only Chinese-made chips. The company, formerly known as Zhipu,…

Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Athropic researchers

AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.  

Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon
Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon

Most AI chips are general-purpose. You load a model onto them, and they run it. Google is reportedly trying something stranger: a chip that is the model, with Gemini’s blueprint etched into the hardware itself. The project, informally called “Frozen v2…

Kimi K3 is so popular Moonshot ran out of GPUs and paused new sign-ups
Kimi K3 is so popular Moonshot ran out of GPUs and paused new sign-ups

Moonshot AI has a problem most startups would envy. Its new Kimi K3 model proved so popular that it ran out of computing power to serve everyone. So the Chinese lab has hit pause on new sign-ups. Over the past 48 hours, demand “pushed close to the limi…

What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit

Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan’s entire tech ecosystem.