For a year, one question has hung over China’s fast-improving AI models: what are they actually running on? Z.AI has just given part of the answer. It has built a huge data centre that uses only Chinese-made chips. The company, formerly known as Zhipu,…
AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
Most AI chips are general-purpose. You load a model onto them, and they run it. Google is reportedly trying something stranger: a chip that is the model, with Gemini’s blueprint etched into the hardware itself. The project, informally called “Frozen v2…
Moonshot AI has a problem most startups would envy. Its new Kimi K3 model proved so popular that it ran out of computing power to serve everyone. So the Chinese lab has hit pause on new sign-ups. Over the past 48 hours, demand “pushed close to the limi…
Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan’s entire tech ecosystem.
Alibaba’s chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips. The move is designed to lower migration barriers for developers cur…
One of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s signature black Tom Ford leather jackets sold at Sotheby’s on Friday for $960,000 after 65 bids from 45 collectors. The pre-sale estimate was $40,000 to $60,000. The jacket retails for just under $10,000. Huang wore it …
Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable company for the first time since April 2025. Apple closed at roughly $4.88 trillion as its shares held steady, while Nvidia fell 3.5% to approximately $4.86 trillion. Nvidia had held t…
Sega is bringing Virtua Fighter Crossroads to Nvidia’s Arm-based RTX Spark laptops and compact desktop PCs.
The AI economy has run on a simple habit: rent a model from a big lab. Fireworks just raised $1.5bn to argue the opposite, that every company will build intelligence of its own. The Series D values the San Mateo startup at $17.5bn, it said. Atreides Ma…