Meta MTIA 400: GenAI Inference at Scale
Meta's second-gen ASIC delivers 6 PFLOPS FP8 and 288 GB HBM for GenAI and recommendation inference inside Meta's data centers.
Articles Tagged "Data Centers"
Cisco Bets $9B on AI Networking, Cuts 4,000 Jobs
Cisco reported record quarterly revenue of $15.8B and immediately announced 4,000 layoffs, raising its FY2026 AI infrastructure order target from $5B to $9B.
Google Turns to SpaceX for Orbital AI Data Centers
Bloomberg reports Google is in talks with SpaceX to launch its Project Suncatcher satellites - TPU-equipped spacecraft designed to run ML workloads in low Earth orbit.
Cowboy Space Raises $275M to Build Its Own Rockets
Baiju Bhatt's orbital AI compute startup raises $275M at a $2B valuation and plans to build its own rockets to bypass SpaceX and Blue Origin bottlenecks.
AI2 Fires Up $152M Blackwell Cluster for Open Science
AI2's federally backed OMAI compute cluster is now running on NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra hardware and has already shipped OLMo, Molmo 2, and MolmoAct models fully open to researchers.
NVIDIA Bets $2.1B on IREN to Build 5 GW AI Factories
NVIDIA and IREN plan 5 GW of DSX-aligned AI factories, backed by a $2.1B investment warrant and a $3.4B, five-year GPU cloud contract.
Anthropic Doubles Claude Code Limits via SpaceX Deal
Anthropic gains 220,000 GPUs from SpaceX's Colossus 1 in Memphis, immediately doubling Claude Code five-hour rate limits for all paid plans.
Meta Earns Record $56B, Cuts 8K Jobs to Fund $145B AI
Meta posted a record Q1 2026 revenue of $56.3 billion on April 29, then announced 8,000 layoffs and raised its AI infrastructure budget to $145 billion - sending the stock down 7% despite the record earnings.
OpenAI Open-Sources MRC to Fix AI Supercomputer Jams
Six companies just released MRC, an open networking protocol that routes AI training traffic across hundreds of simultaneous paths to end GPU idle time at supercomputer scale.
Inside Anthropic's $200B Google Cloud Compute Bet
Anthropic has committed $200 billion to Google Cloud over five years - the largest cloud contract in AI history - alongside a 3.5 GW TPU capacity deal with Google and Broadcom coming online in 2027.
Huawei Eyes $12B as Nvidia Cedes China AI Market
Bernstein projects Nvidia's China AI chip share falls from 66% to 8% in 2026 while Huawei targets $12B in revenue, with ByteDance alone committing $5.6B in Ascend 950PR orders.
Google TPU 8i - Low-Latency Inference for Agent Era
Google's TPU 8i is a purpose-built inference chip with 10.1 FP4 PFLOPs, 288GB HBM3e at 8,601 GB/s, and a Boardfly topology that cuts collective latency 5x for agentic AI workloads.
