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Nvidia designs the GPUs that power virtually all AI training and inference. The company is worth over $3 trillion and dominates the AI chip market.
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Reuters: DeepSeek V4 will run entirely on Huawei Ascend chips, first frontier model on Chinese silicon
Reuters confirmed DeepSeek's upcoming 1-trillion-parameter V4 model will run entirely on Huawei Ascend 950PR chips, making it the first frontier AI model built on Chinese semiconductor infrastructure. Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent have placed orders for hundreds of thousands of Huawei chips, pushing prices up 20%, as DeepSeek collaborates with Huawei and Cambricon to rewrite core code bypassing NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem.
Iran's IRGC publishes satellite imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate datacenter, threatens 'annihilation'
Iran's IRGC released satellite imagery pinpointing OpenAI's 1-gigawatt Stargate datacenter in Abu Dhabi, with leadership threatening its 'complete and utter annihilation.' The video named American CEOs from OpenAI, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Goldman Sachs, escalating from earlier April 1 threats against 18 tech companies.
DeepSeek V4 confirmed to run entirely on Huawei Ascend chips as Chinese tech giants place massive preorders
The Information reports DeepSeek rewrote core V4 model code to run on Huawei Ascend and Cambricon chips instead of Nvidia, with launch imminent after months of delay. Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent have ordered hundreds of thousands of Huawei Ascend 950PR units to run V4 through their cloud services.
Iran strikes leave AWS availability zones hard down in Bahrain and Dubai; Dubai denies Oracle data center hit
Dubai authorities denied IRGC claims of striking an Oracle data center, calling reports fabricated, even as AWS availability zones in Bahrain and UAE remain degraded from prior Iranian drone strikes. Iran has named 18 US tech firms including Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft as potential targets, claiming US military AI systems are hosted on their infrastructure.
India's Sarvam AI raises $300M at $1.5B valuation in largest Indian AI round
Bangalore-based Sarvam AI is closing a $300M round led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Nvidia, Amazon, and Prosperity7. The company builds LLMs supporting 22 Indian languages via voice commands, competing with OpenAI and Google in India's market.
DeepSeek V4 to run on Huawei chips as April launch nears — denying Nvidia early access
The Information reports DeepSeek V4, a 1T-parameter MoE model, will launch within weeks running on Huawei Ascend and Cambricon chips after months of code rewrites — deliberately bypassing Nvidia. Chinese tech giants including Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent have placed bulk Huawei chip orders totaling hundreds of thousands of units.
Google TurboQuant Compresses AI Memory 6x, Rattles Chip Stocks
Market analysis of Google's TurboQuant algorithm shows it can shrink AI working memory (KV cache) by 6x and speed attention computation 8x on H100 GPUs by compressing from 16-bit to ~3-bit precision. Shares of memory chipmakers Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung fell on the implications for reduced AI hardware demand.
Poolside AI in talks with Google to revive 2GW Texas data center after CoreWeave deal and $2B Nvidia round collapse
AI coding startup Poolside is in talks with Google and other cloud providers to revive its ambitious 2-gigawatt Texas data center project after its partnership with CoreWeave fell apart. A planned $2B funding round led by Nvidia also collapsed alongside the CoreWeave deal.
OpenAI closes record $122B round with $3B from retail investors ahead of IPO
OpenAI closed its funding round at $122B at $852B valuation, including $3B from individual investors. Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B) led the round.
OpenAI closes record $122B funding round at $852B valuation, up from initial $110B
OpenAI announced its funding round closed at $122 billion of committed capital at an $852 billion valuation, up from the $110 billion initially announced in February. Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia $30B, SoftBank $30B.
NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Marvell to accelerate AI infrastructure
NVIDIA announced a $2 billion investment to accelerate AI infrastructure through Marvell Technology, building on NVLink Fusion rack-scale platforms.
NVIDIA shrinks AI memory usage 20x
Could enable Tesla FSD v14 on older hardware.
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