Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 AI chip and targets 20GW of data-center capacity
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Image: Primary Google has bought Crusoe's data centre site in southeast Wyoming and will build the project itself, Crusoe said Friday. The acquisition follows Google's announcement a day earlier that it would spend $17B on its first Wyoming data centre in Laramie County.
Nvidia has made an open source implementation of Reshard available to transfer updated model weights between training and inference GPUs. The company reports speedups of 2.7x to 5.7x over conventional gather-and-broadcast transfers in NeMo RL benchmarks.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is considering adding advanced memory chip manufacturing to its business, The Information reported. Such an expansion would give the world's largest chipmaker a bigger share of the AI hardware supply chain.
Google has backed away from a setting that required schools to disable Google Search when turning off Gemini, EFF reports. Google clarified that Gemini, Gemini notebook and Search will have separate controls and will be off by default.
OpenAI says payment declines affecting some U.S. business Mastercards, including some Brex cards, can block automatic API balance recharges and one-time credit purchases. Customers whose prepaid balances run out may see API requests fail.
Elon Musk said government contracts will account for less than 10% of SpaceX revenue this quarter, down from 16.6% in the third quarter, The Next Web reports. Renting AI computing has become its largest revenue source.