News Bytes 20250526: Biggest AI Training Center?, Big AI Pursues AGI and Beyond, NVIDIA’s Quantum Moves, RISC-V Turns 15

A solemn Memorial Day (US) salute to our lost loved ones. The world of HPC-AI continues its global expansion with much news over the past week, including: Big AI pursues AGI and SI, Stargate plans for sites in the US, Middle East and APAC, NVIDIA investing in PsiQuantum?, photonic and silicon-based quantum computing line up, D-Wave rolls out Advantage2, RISC-V turns 15

News Bytes 20250310: TSMC’s $100B for Arizona Fabs, New AGI Benchmarks, JSC’s Quantum-Exascale Integration, Chinese Quantum Reported 1Mx Faster than Google’s

Happy Daylight Savings Time (U.S.) to you! Big things happened in HPC-AI last week, here’s a brief (7:46) run-through of recent news: TSMC $100 billion investment in Arizona, new “real world” AGI benchmarks unveiled ….

Toward AGI: AI Innovation Will Be Driven by Applications, Not LLMs

DeepSeek’s LLM caused a stir, but … companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are aiming higher, their sights are set on artificial general intelligence (AGI), for which LLMs will be a component. No matter how fast, powerful, or efficient they get, LLMs alone won’t be enough to achieve AGI.