AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia
AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia

AMD unveiled a suite of new data centre products at its Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday, claiming they will outperform Nvidia’s competing hardware across AI training and inference. The announcements included the MI455X AI accelerator, t…

AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude
AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude

AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday that commits AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in Helios rackscale solutions to run Claude. Deployment of the first …

Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes
Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes

The hard part of medical robotics is not the robot. It is the practice. A surgical system needs thousands of attempts to learn a delicate task, and you cannot run those on real patients. Nvidia thinks the answer is to let the robot rehearse inside a si…

Jensen Huang made $172 billion selling AI chips. He just gave $75 million to an art school.
Jensen Huang made $172 billion selling AI chips. He just gave $75 million to an art school.

Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco. The $75 million is a matching gift, and it has already spurred over $100 million in ad…

Inside the data centres powering AI: gold racks, demented noise, and 40 diesel generators
Inside the data centres powering AI: gold racks, demented noise, and 40 diesel generators

AI can seem like magic, a voice from a phone, an answer from nowhere. Step inside the buildings that make it, and the magic evaporates. What is left is noise, heat, metal, and an enormous appetite for power. Axios’s Amy Harder toured a test server hall…

Nvidia donated a GB300 supercomputer to the Navy, to teach officers AI’s limits
Nvidia donated a GB300 supercomputer to the Navy, to teach officers AI’s limits

The Nvidia chip at the centre of America’s export fight with China has a new home: a classroom in Monterey. The Naval Postgraduate School has stood up a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer, the first in the US military, Nextgov reported. The machine runs on Nvi…

Jensen Huang calls the AI jobs panic ‘complete nonsense’, and takes aim at his peers
Jensen Huang calls the AI jobs panic ‘complete nonsense’, and takes aim at his peers

Jensen Huang has heard the warnings. He is not buying them. The Nvidia chief runs the world’s most valuable company on the back of the AI boom. So when he calls the darkest predictions about that boom “complete nonsense,” it is worth asking whether he …

China narrows the AI gap with the US to a record-low 6%
China narrows the AI gap with the US to a record-low 6%

The gap between American and Chinese AI is closing fast. Chinese models narrowed the performance shortfall to a record-low 6% in June, down from 9% in May, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. The research arm said the shift raises real questions about…

White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable to build Kimi K3
White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable to build Kimi K3

The model that rattled Silicon Valley last week now has Washington’s attention. A senior White House official has accused China’s Moonshot AI of breaking US export controls to build Kimi K3. It reached restricted Nvidia chips, he said, and leaned on Am…

Nvidia donates a DGX GB300 to the US military’s top science school
Nvidia donates a DGX GB300 to the US military’s top science school

Jensen Huang travelled to Monterey this week to give the US Navy a machine that most defence contractors would have had to sell it. Nvidia’s founder helped commission a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer at the Naval Postgraduate School, the first system of it…