
Oracle to spend $40bn on Nvidia GPUs for OpenAI Texas data center
Will be housed in the Abilene, Texas, data center campus
Will be housed in the Abilene, Texas, data center campus
Kenny Huynh moves to generative AI company
The Chinese startup claims its model was trained for significantly less money than those developed by US labs
But discussions ultimately went nowhere
Well, the outgoing White House
Abandons plans to establish network of foundries
Process node not slated for mass production until late 2026
CEO Sam Altman has been leading the discussions
72,000 H100 GPU equivalents a month, as OpenAI says that scaling laws show no sign of slowing down
Enormous supercomputer could launch in 2028
And takes most of Inflection AI startup with him, putting GPU cluster at risk
Here's what's coming to a data center near you
Newly-launched state-backed AI fund MGX in talks with Sam Altman
Already working with Microsoft on Maia AI Accelerator development
Latest signal the company is looking to reduce its reliance on Nvidia
Could also build custom telecoms, automotive, and video game chips
Comes after Altman posted that the world needs more AI infrastructure, including data centers
Comes after reports that Altman has been courting Middle Eastern investors for an AI chip venture
He's also after more nuclear fission along with solar plus storage
Altman reportedly first floated the idea before he was ousted and reinstated as CEO in 2023
Keeping it in the family
Creator of the Machine Learning Site Reliability Engineering (ML SRE) organization at Google
Chip engineer Richard Ho leads new division at the generative AI startup to help "influence roadmaps for hardware partners for data center networks, racks, and buildings"
But is now at Microsoft, which has its own AI chips
Azure Cobalt 100 and Azure Maia 100 mark company's entry into custom chip game