Nscale Closes $2B to Build Europe's AI Backbone
Nscale raises the largest Series C in European history, valuing the company at $14.6 billion and funding a 100,000-GPU AI gigafactory in Norway with OpenAI as anchor customer.
Articles Tagged "NVIDIA"
vLLM 0.17 Ships FlashAttention 4 and Live MoE Scaling
vLLM v0.17.0 adds FlashAttention 4, elastic expert parallelism for live MoE rescaling, full Qwen3.5 support, and a performance-mode flag, all in 699 commits from 272 contributors.
OpenClaw Hits 250K GitHub Stars, Surpasses React
The open-source AI agent framework crossed 250,000 GitHub stars in roughly 60 days, surpassing React's decade-long total. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang called it the most important software release ever.
US Drafts Rules Requiring Permits for All AI Chip Exports
The Commerce Department has drafted regulations requiring government approval for all AI chip exports worldwide - not just to China - giving Washington unprecedented gatekeeper power over global AI development.
PersonaPlex 7B Runs Full-Duplex Speech on a Mac
A developer ported NVIDIA's PersonaPlex 7B speech-to-speech model to native Swift using MLX, running full-duplex conversation on Apple Silicon with no cloud, no Python, and faster-than-real-time inference.
Evo 2 Is the Largest Open-Source Biology AI Ever Built
Arc Institute and NVIDIA release Evo 2, a 40B-parameter open-source AI trained on 9.3 trillion nucleotides from every domain of life, with full weights, code, and training data.
Nvidia Rules Out $100B OpenAI Bet as IPO Nears
Jensen Huang confirmed Nvidia's $30B OpenAI investment will likely be its last direct equity stake, killing the $100B pledge as OpenAI races toward a public listing at a $730B valuation.
Meta's $100B AMD Bet Is a Direct Shot at Nvidia
Meta and AMD signed a 6-gigawatt, multi-year GPU pact worth up to $100B - announced days after a separate Nvidia expansion, signaling Meta's deliberate strategy to break single-vendor dependence in AI compute.
Ayar Labs Raises $500M to Wire AI Chips With Light
Ayar Labs closes a $500M Series E backed by Nvidia, AMD, and Sequoia to mass-produce co-packaged optical interconnects that replace copper in AI data centers.
US Weighs 75K-Chip Cap on Nvidia H200 Sales to China
The Trump administration is considering limiting Chinese companies to 75,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs each - less than half what Alibaba and ByteDance want - while zero chips have shipped despite months of export approvals.
Nvidia Pours $4B Into Photonics for AI Data Centers
Nvidia invests $2 billion each in Lumentum and Coherent to develop silicon photonics for next-generation AI factories, signaling that copper interconnects have hit their ceiling.
CUDA Programming - A Practical Guide for Software Engineers
A hands-on guide to CUDA programming for developers who know how to code but have never written a GPU kernel. Covers architecture, memory, real code examples, and Metal comparison.
