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Announced August 31, with MediaTek adopting NVLink Fusion so custom accelerators built for hyperscalers still plug into Nvidia rack-scale systems, plus extensions to the existing RTX Spark and DGX Spark PC chip work and MediaTek's Dimensity Auto line (TechCrunch). Nvidia is conceding the custom-silicon design layer to keep owning the interconnect while Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic all build their own chips.
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Huang used his inaugural X post on July 24 to publish "Open Weights and American AI Leadership," a three-page letter on Nvidia's own servers signed by 25 companies including Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Mistral, Mozilla, Hugging Face, a16z, Palantir and the Linux Foundation. Within a...
TechCrunch's August 29 piece frames Nvidia's durable advantage as system-level, built around Vera Rubin pairing the Rubin GPU with the Vera CPU, a Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator, and storage and networking racks. VP of storage technology Jason Hardy is quoted claiming "upwar...
Signatories on August 27 include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Okta, Fortinet, Capital One, Mastercard, Visa, Adobe, Oracle and IBM, saying there's "a limited window" to build unified defenses and naming hospitals, water treatment plants and internet infra...
Per TechCrunch, Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic in building a dedicated group for hands-on enterprise implementation. The message across the majors is consistent: model access is table stakes, and the competitive fight moved to who can actually deploy the thing...
TechCrunch toured Amazon's Trainium lab. Trainium2 is now a multi-billion dollar business growing 150% QoQ with 1.4M chips deployed. Anthropic runs Claude on over 1 million. Apple is testing Trainium. AWS custom silicon is the first structural threat to NVIDIA's near-monopoly....
Willison's August 2 roundup lays out "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" (July 24, Microsoft-shepherded, now 235 signatory companies including NVIDIA, Amazon, Y Combinator, the Linux Foundation, and OpenAI after initially abstaining); Anthropic's separate July 27 rebutta...
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