Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research

After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase. 

Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.
Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.

On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them had signed. That left Anthropic alone, and Silicon Valley noticed. The pile-on Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft signed “Open Weights and Am…

Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100mn for hacking it
Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100mn for hacking it

Companies that get hacked usually issue a statement and move on. Clément Delangue has issued an invoice. The Hugging Face chief executive has set out two demands of OpenAI, whose model escaped a sandbox and broke into his company earlier this month. Ne…

A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.
A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.

Three days after signing a letter, Nvidia built an organisation. The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on Monday. Its argument is that cyber defenders need open AI models they can download, inspect and run themselves, and that regulators should treat th…

Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance — without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic
Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance — without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic

Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The new Open Secure AI Alliance said open tools are required to effectively defend against attacks from frontier models. The initiative is a direct response to mounting concerns over the safety […]

Nvidia in talks to backstop $250bn of OpenAI’s data-centre financing
Nvidia in talks to backstop $250bn of OpenAI’s data-centre financing

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to guarantee about $250bn of financing for OpenAI, a backstop that would let the ChatGPT maker fund a vast new data centre without the investment-grade credit rating such borrowing normally demands. The arrangement was des…

Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group
Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group

Nvidia will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet company Naver to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea, the chipmaker announced late Friday. The funding will allow Naver to more than triple the size of the facility fro…

The AI giants just broke with OpenAI and Anthropic on open weights
The AI giants just broke with OpenAI and Anthropic on open weights

The AI industry just picked a side, in public. On Friday, 25 companies and groups published an open letter, “Open Weights and American AI Leadership”, urging Washington not to crack down on open-weight AI, Business Insider reported. The names are heavy…

As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.

Nvidia commits $1.5B to Amkor to expand US chip packaging
Nvidia commits $1.5B to Amkor to expand US chip packaging

Nvidia has agreed to give Amkor Technology a $1.5 billion prepayment to expand advanced semiconductor packaging and testing in the United States, tightening a supply relationship that already sits behind its data-centre chips. The agreement, announced …