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TechCrunch covers an interactive world model available via API on day one, aimed first at AV companies simulating rare edge cases at scale, with robotics next. Its DOS optimization stack runs across NVIDIA, Amazon, and Google hardware, undercutting competitors on cost. Real-time world models with API pricing this low are a new primitive. If you're in simulation, robotics, or synthetic data, the per-second price changes what's economical.
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TechCrunch's August 29 piece frames Nvidia's durable advantage as system-level, built around Vera Rubin pairing the Rubin GPU with the Vera CPU, a Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator, and storage and networking racks. VP of storage technology Jason Hardy is quoted claiming "upwar...
Trump's State of the Union announced tech companies must "build, bring, or buy" their own power for AI data centers. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, xAI, and Oracle will sign March 4. US data center energy demand expected to triple by 2028. Critics call it unenforceab...
Announced August 31, with MediaTek adopting NVLink Fusion so custom accelerators built for hyperscalers still plug into Nvidia rack-scale systems, plus extensions to the existing RTX Spark and DGX Spark PC chip work and MediaTek's Dimensity Auto line (TechCrunch). Nvidia is co...
TechCrunch reports the seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with 8 million users at the one-year mark. The origin is the pattern: co-founder Shijia Liao, a former NVIDIA video researcher, trained the initial models on a single gaming GPU, and Fish Speech passed 31,...
LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03B at $3.5B pre-money — Europe's largest-ever seed round. Investors include NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Samsung, Toyota. LeCun's thesis: LLMs are fundamentally wrong for intelligence because they learn from text, not the physical world. AMI will build "worl...
Court filings unsealed this week show Google won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal corpus. The Register has the itemized manifest, corroborated by Axios, CNN Business, Bloomberg Law, and Skift: Roughly 100 million emails. 500 million Microsoft Teams items. 17...
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