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Groq raises $350M at $3.5B valuation to pivot from chips to neocloud
The Nvidia-backed round marks a new valuation floor after Nvidia's $20B licensing deal stripped out Groq's founding team.

Nvidia guarantees $105B financing for OpenAI's Ohio AI data center
SB Energy builds, SoftBank powers, Nvidia backstops the debt — a 20-year lease locks in up to 8 gigawatts of compute for OpenAI.

Nvidia backs 4.25 GW Ohio AI factory for OpenAI in $600B compute deal
Jensen Huang commits Nvidia's balance sheet to secure land, power and shell at PORTS-Pike, with OpenAI as the tenant through 2030.

Nvidia weighs $3B investment in SB Energy to power OpenAI data centers
The chipmaker is moving down the stack into power generation as OpenAI's compute buildout outpaces available grid capacity.

UGM, Indosat and Nvidia open Indonesia's first university AI center
The Yogyakarta hub gives Indonesian researchers sovereign GPU access to tackle tuberculosis screening, farming and disaster response.

Nvidia backstops $500B AI data center push by guaranteeing GPU resale values
Jensen Huang gets Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to fund the buildout — in exchange for covering 25% of any collateral shortfall.

Nvidia ships GeForce NOW native Linux app, opens 2,000-game library to Chromebooks
The Linux client exits beta on Ubuntu 24.04, DLSS Frame Generation gets a latency cut, and Chromebook Fast Pass throws in a free year.

CodeRabbit raises $143M at $1.5B valuation to review AI-generated code
The Nvidia-backed startup now runs 2 million code reviews a week as AI-written software outpaces what human teams can vet.

Nvidia lines up $500B in outside capital to finance AI factories
Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR will underwrite Nvidia compute as long-lived infrastructure.

River AI raises $1.1B two months after launch to rebuild the AI stack
General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the round into xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's startup, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek joining.

Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft push 800 VDC power standard for AI factories
An OCP-backed direct-current architecture aims to unblock rack density as Wood Mackenzie projects $9 trillion in AI infrastructure spend through 2040.

Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard for agent workloads
The 30B mixture-of-experts model runs 4x faster on output, while the routing library cuts task cost to a third of Opus 4.8.

Nvidia ships Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B open MoE for local agents
The new open-weights model runs 4x faster than class rivals and slots into RTX PCs, DGX Spark, and Jetson for always-on agentic workloads.

Firebird opens CIS region's largest AI factory in Armenia with Nvidia GPUs
The AI cloud plans 70,000 Rubin and Blackwell GPUs and 300 megawatts in Armenia by end of 2027, with a 2-gigawatt roadmap across the region.

Nvidia releases Cosmos 3, an open world model family for physical AI
The three-tier release spans 4B to 64B parameters and tops five benchmarks for open-weights image, video, world and robot generation.

White House keeps AI cybersecurity framework secret after briefing top labs
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Nvidia got the details Tuesday. Everyone else, including smaller AI startups, is locked out.

AMD data center revenue doubles to $6.7B as AI demand overtakes gaming
The Data Center segment now accounts for 58% of AMD's business, while gaming revenue slid 31% to $779M year-over-year.

Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance ships SAFE proposals one week in
The 120-company group unveiled draft incident-sharing guidelines at Black Hat, with the Linux Foundation managing comments.

Anthropic signs $10B cloud deal with Volta for Norway data center
The six-year contract sends Claude compute to a 133 MW Nvidia Vera Rubin facility built with crypto miner Bitdeer.

Nvidia open-sources cuFile and rallies 40+ vendors around AI storage
At the FMS conference, Nvidia is pitching storage as an active part of the AI data path, with its Vera CPU claiming 3.21x throughput over x86.

Nvidia opens Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial robotaxi deployment
The 30B-parameter driving model tops LingoQA against Qwen, Gemini and GPT-4o, and ships under a permissive Linux Foundation license.

NVIDIA joins NSF's State and Regional AI Hubs program to widen US research access
The program pools compute, data and expertise across state consortia, modeled on NVIDIA's 2020 University of Florida partnership.

Open Secure AI Alliance drafts SAFE guidelines for agentic AI incident sharing
The 120-member Linux Foundation group opened a Request for Comments on shared incident reporting as Black Hat kicks off in Las Vegas.

Nscale buys Anyscale for $1.65B to own more of the AI compute stack
The British neocloud adds Ray-based workload orchestration to a stack that already spans energy, data centers, and GPU capacity.
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