OpenAI’s first chip is measured in watts, not in chips
OpenAI published the first measured results for Jalapeño, its custom inference chip, claiming 1.5 to 1.9 times more work per watt and…
Issue #260826
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The number that matters on Cerebras’ new rack is not the FLOPS
EXCERPT: Cerebras unveiled the CS-4, a three-wafer rack built on the new WSE-3 Turbo that doubles compute to 250 PFLOPS per wafer…
Issue #260825
Nvidia raised prices and did not touch the GPU
Nvidia told its largest customers that AI servers built on Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin will cost more than 15 percent extra…
Issue #260824
AT&T stopped asking for the best model, and saved 56 percent
AT&T cut the cost of coding and other advanced AI tasks by as much as 56 percent, with only a 2 percent…
Issue #260823
Nevada said yes to 8,000 robotaxis, and the hard part is not the driving
Nevada regulators unanimously cleared Tesla, Waymo and Uber to run up to 8,000 paid robotaxis across Clark County over the next 12…
Issue #260822
Google paid 12 billion for the wires, not the chip
Marvell handed Google a warrant on up to 12.2 billion dollars of its stock in a custom-silicon deal that runs through fiscal…
Issue #260821