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AI hardware provides the computing power, memory and networks used to train and run artificial intelligence models. Follow news on GPUs, AI accelerators, data centres, chip design and energy demand. Read how changes in infrastructure affect performance, availability and cost, and distinguish measured results from vendor claims about what the next generation of computing will deliver.
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Meta has introduced Muse, a US personal AI agent that connects to everyday services and completes tasks on a user’s behalf. This is Meta’s biggest move yet from chatbots that answer questions towards software trusted to send, book, buy and keep working after you close the app.
Read the report & discussion ↗OpenAI Watch
NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster has accused OpenAI researchers of racing towards the same Navier-Stokes result after learning about his collaboration’s progress. OpenAI mathematics lead Sébastien Bubeck denies the claims, leaving a consequential dispute about academic priority, AI-assisted research and access to researchers’ model interactions.
Unsloth Watch
Unsloth has published v0.1.807-beta, a substantial update to its open-source tools for running and training AI models locally. The headline change is broader hardware support: supported AMD systems now use Vulkan by default in several configurations, while Apple Silicon gets faster MLX workflows and NVIDIA users get new…
Arm Watch
Arm chief executive Rene Haas says AI could help cure cancers that humans cannot solve in their lifetimes, while humanoid robots could become widespread within five years. The more immediate constraint, he argues, is less futuristic: there are not enough chips to build all the data centres AI…
Mistral AI Watch
Mistral AI has announced a €3 billion Series D funding round, valuing the French AI company at more than €21 billion after the investment. The money matters because Mistral is trying to make open-weight, sovereign AI a credible alternative to the closed model giants, and this gives that…
Arm Watch
Arm has announced Arm CSS for Mobile 2, an AI-native compute platform designed to bring more capable AI processing into next-generation mobile experiences. The important bit is the integration: Arm is presenting CPU, graphics, neural acceleration and system-level optimisation as one platform rather than a collection of separate…
