Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang strode onto a stage in Berlin this week with a message for the world: the Vera Rubin era of AI computing has officially begun. The centerpiece of Nvidia’s first-ever GTC event in the German capital was the unveiling of the Vera Rubin DSX Pod — a full-stack AI supercomputing platform packaged … Read more
Amazon TorchNeuron is here, and it’s the most direct challenge yet to Nvidia’s stranglehold on the AI chip market. On Monday, Amazon Web Services publicly released TorchNeuron, a free and open-source developer tool that lets AI apps written in PyTorch run on Amazon’s custom Trainium chips with a single configuration change. No rewrite. No months … Read more
The Tenstorrent Series E funding round closed at $1.5 billion on Monday, valuing the US AI chipmaker at $6.2 billion — the largest startup round announced that day, and one of the biggest private AI financings of the year. Investors are pouring money into semiconductor infrastructure beyond Nvidia, betting that the AI boom’s appetite for … Read more
