Alibaba Cloud engineer and researcher Ennan Zhai shared his research paper via GitHub, revealing the Cloud provider’s design for its data centers used for LLM training. The PDF document, entitled “Alibaba HPN: A Data Center Network for Large Language Model Training,” outlines how Alibaba used Ethernet to allow its 15,000 GPUs to communicate with each […]
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Analyst Says NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) is the “Only Game In Town” for AI GPUs
We recently published a list of the 12 Best AI Stocks Leading the ‘Big Tech Race’ to $4 Trillion According to a Famous Wall Street Analyst. Since NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) ranks 4th on the list, it deserves a deeper look. Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives has said in a fresh note that major tech giants are […]
AI titans Microsoft and Nvidia reportedly had a standoff over Microsoft’s use of B200 AI GPUs in its own server rooms
Credit: Nvidia Nvidia is well known for its high-performance gaming GPUs and industry-leading AI GPUs. However, the trillion-dollar GPU manufacturer is also known for controlling how its GPUs are used beyond company walls. For example, it can be quite restrictive with its AIB partners’ graphics card designs. Perhaps not surprisingly, this level of control also […]
Intel Arc GPUs shown in all flavors — BTF design with hidden connectors, blower-type coolers, and liquid-cooled GPUs
Sparkle, which returned to GPU manufacturing last year, showed off its complete Intel Arc lineup at Computex 2024. The company exhibited various Arc Alchemist graphics cards, including a BTF (Back to The Future) design with hidden power connectors, a blower-type design, and a liquid-cooled concept. Sparkle also showed off two concept cards: a Blower Concept […]
Elon Musk wants to purchase 300,000 Blackwell B200 Nvidia AI GPUs — Hardware upgrades to improve X’s Grok AI bot
AI GPU development is running at breakneck speeds, and Elon Musk wants to be at the forefront of the revolution. In an X post, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO revealed that he wants to buy 300,000 worth of Nvidia’s latest Blackwell B200 GPUs by next summer. The new GPUs will upgrade X’s existing AI GPU […]
New Nvidia Blackwell GPUs put China further behind global leading edge in AI chips amid US sanctions
The gap between China and the US in leading artificial intelligence (AI) chip technology is set to widen further, after Nvidia founder and chief executive Jensen Huang unveiled next-generation processors for what he called a new era of generative AI and robotics used in industries. In a keynote speech on Sunday ahead of the Computex […]
Elon Musk’s xAI plans to build ‘Gigafactory of Compute’ by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia’s H100 GPUs
xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, plans to build a massive supercomputer to enhance its AI chatbot, Grok, reports Reuters citing The Information. The supercomputer, which Elon Musk refers to as the Gigafactory of Compute, is projected to be ready by fall 2025 and might involve a collaboration with Oracle. With this development, Musk aims to significantly surpass rival […]
Nvidia’s unannounced R100 AI GPUs reportedly coming in late 2025 — ‘Vera Rubin’ multi-chip designs using 3nm and CoWoS-L
Nvidia’s post-Blackwell next generation Vera Rubin GPUs for AI and HPC applications will enter mass production in late 2025, according to renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on Medium.com. Nvidia will focus on the power consumption of its data center GPUs with the R100 processors based on the Rubin architecture, as the extreme amounts of power devoured by […]
CEO says he tried to hire an AI researcher from Meta, and was told to ‘come back to me when you have 10,000 H100 GPUs’
It’s only getting harder to hire workers with AI skills. The CEO of an AI startup said he couldn’t poach a Meta employee because it didn’t have enough GPUs. “Amazing incentives” are needed to attract AI talent, he said on the podcast “Invest Like The Best.” Recruiting AI talent appears to be a tough feat […]
Nvidia Is Selling $10 Billion in GPUs to This AI Tech Giant (Hint: It’s Not Microsoft)
Nvidia‘s (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock price has more than quadrupled over the past three years. Most of that rally was driven by the rapid expansion of the artificial intelligence (AI) market, where its data center GPUs are used to process complex AI tasks. Two of its better-known customers are OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, and its […]