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OpenAI has reportedly acquired Glass Imaging, a smartphone camera maker, for $300 million. The company brings expertise in computational photography and advanced camera systems.
Deepseek plans to install 160,000 Huawei Ascend-950DT chips in an Inner Mongolia data center, marking the largest known Huawei chip cluster, though production bottlenecks may delay deployment.
Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, securing a key platform for open AI development and strengthening its position in the AI hardware and software ecosystem.
OpenAI's new Jalapeño inference chip delivers industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference, with higher throughput and lower latency for modern AI models.
OpenAI's first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, reportedly outperforms Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin in throughput and energy efficiency benchmarks.
Waymo has developed its own custom chip for robotaxis, reducing reliance on Nvidia and enhancing control over performance and scalability.
Etched's valuation has doubled to $21 billion in a month following Jane Street's deployment of its AI cluster systems. The startup's rapid growth highlights increasing demand for specialized AI hardware.
Nvidia's $500 billion plan aims to preserve GPU value and convince financiers to continue lending for AI infrastructure, even as older hardware becomes less relevant.
Sandbar's voice-enabled ring aims to capture spontaneous thoughts and ideas, potentially avoiding the pitfalls that have plagued previous AI hardware entrants.
AMD acquires Canadian startup Taalas, which specializes in embedding AI model weights directly into silicon for ultra-fast inference. Google is reportedly pursuing a similar strategy for its Gemini models.
Majestic Labs, a startup founded by former Google and Meta engineers, introduces a memory-centric AI server that claims to outperform traditional GPU setups by addressing the real bottleneck in AI hardware.
AI chip startup Eliyan has raised $145 million in Series C funding, bringing its valuation to $1 billion. The company aims to solve the bottleneck caused by chips outpacing their own wiring.
