
Nvidia Cosmos 3 Is the First Open Physical AI Model
Nvidia's Cosmos 3 is the first fully open omnimodel for physical AI, trained on 20 trillion tokens to teach robots and autonomous vehicles how to reason and act in the real world.
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Nvidia's Cosmos 3 is the first fully open omnimodel for physical AI, trained on 20 trillion tokens to teach robots and autonomous vehicles how to reason and act in the real world.

XCENA raises $135M at a $570M valuation to build the MX1 - a CXL 3.2 chip with thousands of RISC-V cores that processes AI workloads where data lives, eliminating costly data transfers between GPU and RAM.

Blackstone commits $5 billion to a new Google joint venture selling TPU compute-as-a-service, directly challenging CoreWeave with Wall Street capital and Google's chip stack.

Qualcomm stock surged 12% to an all-time high on May 22 and is now up 75% in a month, driven by an OpenAI smartphone deal, a Stellantis car contract, and a data center chip push - forcing Wall Street to rethink a company it had written off.

NVIDIA delivered first Vera CPUs to Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX on May 17-19 as Q1 FY2027 earnings hit $81.6B, with $20B in standalone Vera CPU orders on the books for 2026.

Brett Adcock's AI lab Hark has closed a $700M Series A at a $6B valuation before shipping a single product, with chip companies AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA all backing the bet.

Google unveiled three Android XR smart glasses form factors at I/O 2026, backed by Samsung, XREAL, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster as launch partners.

South Korean startup LetinAR raises $18.5M to scale its PinTILT optical modules, which already power AI glasses and AR helmets as shipments hit 8.7 million units globally in 2025.

Lumai's optical AI inference server uses light-based computing to run billion-parameter LLMs with up to 90% less power than GPUs.

Skymizer's HTX301 uses six 28nm chips and 384 GB LPDDR5 to run 700B-parameter LLMs on a single PCIe card at just 240W.

AMD Helios packs 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs and 31 TB HBM4 into a single rack delivering 2.9 FP4 ExaFLOPS for AI workloads.

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.