Microsoft is not just the world’s biggest consumer of OpenAI models, but also still the largest partner providing compute, networking, and storage to OpenAI as it builds its latest GPT models. …
Microsoft Takes On Other Clouds With “Braga” Maia 200 AI Compute Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With the hyperscalers and the cloud builders all working on their own CPU and AI XPU designs, it is no wonder that Nvidia has been championing the neoclouds that can’t afford to try to be everything to everyone – this is the very definition of enterprise computing – and that, frankly, are having trouble coming up with the trillions of dollars to cover the 150 gigawatts to more than 200 gigawatts of datacenter capacity that is estimated to be on the books between 2025 and 2030 for AI workloads. …
Nvidia’s $2 Billion Investment In CoreWeave Is A Drop In A $250 Billion Bucket was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Amid the myriad discussions about AI – from the astounding amount of money being spent by vendors and enterprises and the debate about actual ROI those businesses are getting to the technology’s effect on cybersecurity, jobs, and the fear of disinformation and resulting distrust – it’s easy to forget its usefulness in particular industries. …
Nvidia Takes The Open Road In AI Weather Forecasting was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
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AI Is Coming To Solve Your System Outages was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel has been pushing its two-core server CPU strategy for so long, in one form or another, that we have become accustomed to differentiating products the way Intel does and then try to figure out what workloads these chips might be useful for. …
Intel Is Still Struggling In The Datacenter, But It Could Get Better was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Meta Platforms is not happy just being the social network for the world anymore. …
Meta Platforms Metamorphizing Into An AI Cloud For Sovereigns was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The first company that can make a UALink switch with high radix – meaning lots of ports – and high aggregate bandwidth across those ports that can compete toe-to-toe with Nvidia’s NVSwitch memory fabric and NVLink ports is going to make a lot of money. …
Upscale AI Nabs Cash To Forge “SkyHammer” Scale Up Fabric Switch was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
No, we did not miss the fact that Nvidia did an “acquihire” of AI accelerator and system startup and rival Groq on Christmas Eve. …
Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If the GenAI expansion runs out of gas, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s most important foundry for advanced chippery, will be the first to know. …
TSMC Has No Choice But To Trust The Sunny AI Forecasts Of Its Customers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If GenAI is going to go mainstream and not just be a bubble that helps prop up the global economy for a couple of years, AI inference is going to have to come down in price – and do so faster than it has done thus far. …
Cerebras Inks Transformative $10 Billion Inference Deal With OpenAI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.