AI infrastructure company Infinity on Monday announced a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers at companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. The startup is creating software to make it easier for AI chips to run AI models. A big reason why Nvidia became the top
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Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is designing a new server chip to help its internal Gemini models run more efficiently. The new chip, internally called “Frozen v2,” is scheduled to launch sometime in 2028, The Information reported, citing anonymous sources. According to the report, the chip could be six to 10 times more efficient than Google’s
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Nvidia boss Jensen Huang spent two days (July 15-16) in Tokyo courting Japan’s industrial and chip supplier elite, weeks after a keynote speech in Taiwan and months after a visit to South Korea. It left with deals that span Japan’s entire tech ecosystem: a national AI factory, partnerships with the country’s leading robotics companies, and
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Gradium, a Paris-based startup that offers voice AI models, reopened its seed round to new investors, including Nvidia, and has now raised $100 million in total for the round, it said Thursday. The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, “strengthening its position at
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In April, Reuters reported that Anthropic was toying with the idea of producing its own AI chips as a way to respond to the chip shortage. Now it seems that the company is taking this idea seriously. On Thursday, The Information reported that Anthropic was in contact with Samsung to explore a collaboration around the
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After landing agreements with Google, SpaceX, and OpenAI, the U.S. Defense Department said on Friday that it has signed deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection AI that allow it to deploy their AI tech and models on its classified networks for “lawful operational use.” “These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the
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