When it comes to AI compute, the big cloud platform providers are chip-agnostic, adopting processors from the big chip companies (mostly NVIDIA) along with their own custom-designed GPUs, referred to as ASICS. OpenAI is ….
News Bytes 20251013: AMD’s Big OpenAI Deal, Intel’s New 2nm Server CPU from Fab 52
October 14, 2025 by
A good mid-October day to you! As news weeks go in the HPC-AI world last week was quite something, led by what may come to be regarded as one of the biggest news ….
What the OpenAI Deal Means for AMD in AI Factory Compute
October 8, 2025 by
Of all the days since the last “AMD winter” (i.e., sometime before Lisa Su took over as CEO in 2014), yesterday is among the most memorable and, the company believes, significant ….
NVIDIA Says It Will Invest up to $100B in OpenAI
September 22, 2025 by
NVIDIA intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as new NVIDIA systems are deployed. The first phase is targeted to come online in the second half of 2026 using the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform.
OpenAI Wins $200M Contract Targeting Defense Department Efficiency
June 17, 2025 by
OpenAI announced it has won a $200 million, one-year pilot project contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to help DOD “identify and prototype how frontier AI can transform its administrative operations, from improving how service members and their families get health care, to streamlining how they look at program and acquisition data, to supporting […]
News Bytes 20250526: Biggest AI Training Center?, Big AI Pursues AGI and Beyond, NVIDIA’s Quantum Moves, RISC-V Turns 15
May 27, 2025 by
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 ….
Report: $15B OpenAI Data Center in Texas Will House up to 400,000 Blackwells
May 21, 2025 by
Amid reports of hundreds of billions in AI data center investments in the Middle East, development of AI factories in the U.S. continues apace. The Wall Street Journal reported today that OpenAI has secured ….
Toward AGI: AI Innovation Will Be Driven by Applications, Not LLMs
February 13, 2025 by
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.
News Bytes Podcast 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LANL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers
February 3, 2025 by
Happy February to one and all! The HPC-AI world was upended last week by AI benchmark numbers from DeepSeek, as the dust settles we offer a brief commentary on what, at this stage, it may mean ….
HPC News Bytes 20240715: AI Maturity ROI, OpenAI’s 5 Levels of AI, SoftBank Acquires Graphcore
July 17, 2024 by
Much has happened of late in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (5:55) run through of the news, including: survey commissioned by Vultr points to AI maturity ROI, OpenAI proposes five levels of AI based on capability, SoftBank ….
