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      Stock markets tumble amid jitters over tech companies’ growth

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 12:36

    Losses in Europe and Asia are driven by AI-related groups including Nvidia, Tesla and Google-owner Alphabet

    Stock markets in Europe and Asia took a tumble on Thursday, as jitters over the future growth of major tech companies sparked a global sell-off.

    The pan-European Stoxx 600 dropped 1.3% to its lowest level since May this year, having been hit by a 2.75% decline in the Dutch chipmaker ASML, a 5.5% drop in Germany’s Infineon Technologies, and a 12.8% fall in Switzerland’s semiconductor company STMicroelectronics.

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      Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric”

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 3 days ago - 16:19

    Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a fireside discussion on artificial intelligence risks with Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023.

    Enlarge / Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a fireside discussion on artificial intelligence risks with Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (credit: Getty Images )

    On Monday, Elon Musk announced the start of training for what he calls "the world's most powerful AI training cluster" at xAI's new supercomputer facility in Memphis, Tennessee. The billionaire entrepreneur and CEO of multiple tech companies took to X to share that the so-called "Memphis Supercluster" began operations at approximately 4:20 am local time that day.

    Musk's xAI team, in collaboration with X (formerly Twitter) and Nvidia, launched the supercomputer cluster featuring 100,000 liquid-cooled H100 GPUs on a single RDMA fabric . This setup, according to Musk , gives xAI "a significant advantage in training the world's most powerful AI by every metric by December this year."

    Given issues with xAI's Grok chatbot throughout the year, skeptics would be justified in questioning whether those claims will match reality, especially given Musk's tendency for grandiose, off-the-cuff remarks on the social media platform he runs.

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      The next Nvidia driver makes even more GPUs “open,” in a specific, quirky way

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 18 July - 17:34

    GeForce RTX 4060 cards on display in a case

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    You have to read the headline on Nvidia's latest GPU announcement slowly, parsing each clause as it arrives.

    "Nvidia transitions fully" sounds like real commitment, a burn-the-boats call. "Towards open-source GPU," yes, evoking the company's "first step" announcement a little over two years ago , so this must be progress, right? But, back up a word here, then finish: "GPU kernel modules."

    So, Nvidia has "achieved equivalent or better application performance with our open-source GPU kernel modules," and added some new capabilities to them. And now most of Nvidia's modern GPUs will default to using open source GPU kernel modules, starting with driver release R560, with dual GPL and MIT licensing. But Nvidia has moved most of its proprietary functions into a proprietary, closed-source firmware blob. The parts of Nvidia's GPUs that interact with the broader Linux system are open, but the user-space drivers and firmware are none of your or the OSS community's business.

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      Nvidia Shield TV : l’une des meilleures box TV est en promotion pour les Prime Day

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 16 July - 18:30

    [Deal du Jour] La Nvidia Shield TV est une box idéale pour transformer votre téléviseur en Smart TV. Les modèles standard et Pro sont tous les deux en promotion pour ces Prime Day, et s'accompagnent d'un mois offert à Geforce Now, le service de Cloud Gaming de Nvidia.

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      NVIDIA Shield Pro : cette offre Amazon sur la puissante console/box TV est une dinguerie

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 16 July - 11:51

    Nvidia Shield Pro

    Le Prime Day bat son plein depuis ce mardi, et les offres continuent de couler à flot sur Amazon. Parmi les pépites du jour, il y a l'incontournable NVIDIA Shield Pro qui voit son prix tomber plus bas que terre.
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      Nvidia RTX 50X0 : prix, date de sortie, performances… le point sur les rumeurs

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Monday, 15 July - 13:15

    Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090

    Un voile de mystère entoure encore les prochains GPU grand public du géant vert; voici un condensé des informations rapportées par les leakers jusqu'à présent, en attendant une annonce officielle.
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      In bid to loosen Nvidia’s grip on AI, AMD to buy Finnish startup for $665M

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 10 July - 17:19

    In bid to loosen Nvidia’s grip on AI, AMD to buy Finnish startup for $665M

    Enlarge (credit: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg via Getty Images )

    AMD is to buy Finnish artificial intelligence startup Silo AI for $665 million in one of the largest such takeovers in Europe as the US chipmaker seeks to expand its AI services to compete with market leader Nvidia.

    California-based AMD said Silo’s 300-member team would use its software tools to build custom large language models (LLMs), the kind of AI technology that underpins chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. The all-cash acquisition is expected to close in the second half of this year, subject to regulatory approval.

    “This agreement helps us both accelerate our customer engagements and deployments while also helping us accelerate our own AI tech stack,” Vamsi Boppana, senior vice president of AMD’s artificial intelligence group, told the Financial Times.

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      Antitrust : l’Autorité de la concurrence sur le point d’épingler Nvidia ?

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 3 July - 11:16

    Jensen Huang Nvidia

    La domination sans partage du géant vert n'attire pas seulement l'attention des investisseurs; il semble que le gendarme français de la concurrence l'ait également dans le viseur.