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… As more alternatives to Nvidia emerge, compute providers that aren’t locked into Nvidia deals may have an advantage in providing cost-efficient inference. “There are a bunch of chips that are starting to scale that have amazing total cost of ownership , or that can operate much faster than Nvidia, … …
… Already an investor in SSI, the chipmaking giant said it signed this compute partnership to “accelerate SSI’s next stage of growth after obtaining rare access into the company’s closely guarded research.” “We have research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big NVIDIA computer wil… …
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… Wedbush Securities analyst Matthew Bryson said Nvidia’s investments fall “squarely into the circular investment theme,” but suggested that if successful, they could help the company build a “competitive moat.” Topics AI , nvidia , OpenAI , Startups , Venture Related AI Anthropic has acquired the de…
… The neocloud has been busy putting that money, as well as various debt raises , to work, securing compute and data center partnerships with the likes of Microsoft , British Telecom , and Nordcraft . …
… To recap: Anthropic signed a deal in May to buy 300 megawatts of compute, the entire output of xAI’s Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, Tennessee. Musk’s xAI merged with SpaceX in February. …
… They installed the packaged chip into a computer, turned it on and the entire founding team pictured below “just stood in the lab and stared at it,” he said. “Watching a computer run is about as exciting as watching paint dry. …
… And it speaks to, again, this sense in the industry of being really, really compute constrained — they need to build as many data centers as possible, and there’s all kinds of reasons why that is proving to be challenging here on Earth, so maybe space is the answer. …
On Wednesday, xAI and Anthropic announced a surprise partnership that has the Claude-maker buying out “all of the compute capacity at xAI’s Colossus 1 data center,” roughly 300MW that allowed Anthropic to immediately raise its usage limits. It’s a huge deal for xAI, likely worth billions of dollars. …