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Wednesday • June 11, 2025
Nvidia and Perplexity Team Up in European AI Push
The Chip Giant and AI Search Startup Are Offering Specialized AI Models for European Users, Aiming to Widen Their Reach in the Region
Nvidia and Perplexity are partnering to offer what they call localized and sovereign artificial intelligence models to their users in Europe, the companies said Wednesday.
The chip titan is working with local European partners, including the French AI firm H Company, to build open-source, sovereign AI models that will be offered through AI search startup Perplexity’s platform.
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Wednesday • May 28, 2025
AI Firm Chalk Valued at $500 Million After Raising $50 Million
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Infrastructure Firm Chalk is Halfway to Being a Billion-Dollar Company
The startup announced Wednesday (May 28) that it had raised $50 million in a Series A round, valuing the company at $500 million.
“This funding marks a huge milestone and a powerful validation of our vision for real-time AI infrastructure,” Marc Freed-Finnegan, Chalk’s co-founder/CEO, wrote on the company blog. “When we started Chalk, we knew real-time inference was critical for FinTech. Over the years, we’ve discovered that its importance extends far beyond FinTech — to identity verification, fraud prevention, healthcare and eCommerce.”
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Thursday • January 9, 2025
Nvidia unveils next-gen AI and industrial digitalization capabilities at Microsoft Ignite
Nvidia Blackwell Empowers Next-Gen AI on Microsoft Azure
At the recent Microsoft Ignite conference, Nvidia and Microsoft unveiled innovations that will power the next wave of generative AI from cloud to PCs and fuel a new era of industrial AI.
These announcements span across the full-stack including next-gen AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia Blackwell, new Omniverse workflows for digital twins and visual generative AI, and tools to enable Windows developers to build and optimize AI-powered apps on RTX AI PCs.
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Tuesday • December 3, 2024
Apple says it uses Amazon’s custom AI chips
Apple is Currently Using Amazon Web Services’ Custom Artificial Intelligence Chips For Services Like Searching
Apple is currently using Amazon Web Services’ custom artificial intelligence chips for services like search and will evaluate if the company’s latest AI chip can be used to pretrain its models like Apple Intelligence.
Apple revealed its usage of Amazon’s proprietary chips at the annual AWS Reinvent conference on Tuesday. Benoit Dupin, Apple’s senior director of machine learning and AI, took the stage to discuss how Apple uses the cloud service. It’s a rare example of the company officially allowing a supplier to tout them as a customer.
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Friday • May 17, 2024
Microsoft offers cloud customers AMD alternative to Nvidia AI processors
It Will Also Launch a Preview of New Cobalt 100 Custom Processors at the Conference
Microsoft’s clusters of Advanced Micro Devices’ flagship MI300X AI chips will be sold through its Azure cloud computing service. They will give its customers an alternative to Nvidia’s (NVDA.O), opens new tab H100 family of powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) which dominate the data center chip market for AI but can be hard to obtain due to high demand.
To build AI models or run applications, companies typically must string together – or cluster – multiple GPUs because the data and computation will not fit on a single processor. AMD, which expects $4 billion in AI chip revenue this year, has said the chips are powerful enough to train and run large AI models. As well as Nvidia’s top-shelf AI chips, Microsoft’s cloud computing unit sells access to its own in-house AI chips called Maia.
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Monday • May 6, 2024
Apple Is Developing AI Chips for Data Centers, Seeking Edge in Arms Race
The Company is Leaning On Its Long History of Chip Development in the Effort, Code-Named Project ACDC
Apple AAPL 1.99%increase; green up pointing triangle has been working on its own chip designed to run artificial-intelligence software in data-center servers, a move that has the potential to give the company an advantage in the AI arms race.
Over the past decade, Apple has emerged as a leading player designing chips for iPhones, iPads, Apple Watch and Mac computers. The server project, which is internally code-named Project ACDC—for Apple Chips in Data Center—will bring this talent to bear for the company’s servers, according to people familiar with the matter.
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