Nvidia GTC in DC, Qualcomm’s Artificial Intelligence chip, OpenAI’s restructuring
The article reports that Nvidia pitched Washington to preserve its CUDA moat, a dynamic the piece links to challenges facing Qualcomm’s new Artificial Intelligence chip. It also covers OpenAI’s restructuring and a Microsoft collar trade.
Qualcomm unveils artificial intelligence 200 and 250 chip-based accelerator cards and racks
Qualcomm announced new chip-based accelerator cards and racks, the Artificial Intelligence 200 and 250, intended for data center inference workloads. The company positions the solutions as rack-scale options offering higher memory capacity and improved performance per dollar per watt for generative Artificial Intelligence inference.
Open source artificial intelligence week advances models, tools and research
Open Source Artificial Intelligence Week highlighted new open models, datasets and tooling from NVIDIA and partners, from PyTorch conference awards to expanded Nemotron releases on Hugging Face. The event showcased progress in research, embodied intelligence and startup innovation.
NVIDIA advances ROS 2 with GPU-aware tools and Artificial Intelligence libraries
At ROSCon in Singapore, NVIDIA unveiled GPU-aware contributions to ROS 2, open-sourced performance tooling and Isaac ROS 4.0 for deploying Artificial Intelligence in robotics. The company also pledged support for the Open Source Robotics Alliance Physical Artificial Intelligence special interest group.
NVIDIA launches BlueField-4 to power the operating system of Artificial Intelligence factories
NVIDIA unveiled the BlueField-4 data processing unit to accelerate gigascale Artificial Intelligence infrastructure with 800Gb/s throughput and expanded compute. The platform brings software-defined acceleration for storage, networking and security to support trillion-token workloads.
NVIDIA launches Omniverse DSX blueprint for gigawatt-scale Artificial Intelligence factories
NVIDIA introduced Omniverse DSX, an open blueprint for designing and operating gigawatt-scale Artificial Intelligence factories, validated at Digital Realty’s AI Factory Research Center in Manassas, Virginia. the blueprint combines Omniverse libraries, OpenUSD and partner SimReady assets to accelerate design and deployment.
Mustafa Suleyman rejects sex robots and warns against seemingly conscious artificial intelligence
Microsoft artificial intelligence chief Mustafa Suleyman outlines Copilot updates meant to boost engagement without crossing into humanlike behavior, reaffirming a firm stance against flirtation, sex robots, and seemingly conscious artificial intelligence.
NVIDIA launches open models and data to accelerate Artificial Intelligence innovation
NVIDIA is releasing a suite of open models, datasets and tools to broaden access to Artificial Intelligence across language, robotics and biology. The company is contributing models and data to Hugging Face and making selected models available through cloud partners and NVIDIA infrastructure.
NVIDIA and US technology leaders unveil Artificial Intelligence factory design to modernize government and secure the nation
NVIDIA unveiled the NVIDIA AI Factory for Government reference design at GTC Washington, D.C., offering a full-stack blueprint to help federal agencies build secure Artificial Intelligence platforms. The design combines NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, validated hardware and a broad partner ecosystem to meet FedRAMP and high-assurance requirements.
IBM runs quantum error-correction algorithm on AMD FPGAs ahead of schedule
IBM executed a real-time quantum error-correction algorithm on AMD field-programmable gate arrays, delivering performance 10 times faster than required for live correction. The demo signals earlier-than-planned progress on IBM’s 2029 Starling quantum system roadmap while lowering costs with off-the-shelf hardware.