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Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A
Prime Intellect raised $130M Series A led by Radical Ventures to build an open-source stack for training and deploying AI models, with backing from NVIDIA, Intel Capital, and Dell Capital.
newsNvidia formally launches the Vera Rubin platform for AI and HPC
Nvidia formally launched the Vera Rubin platform, combining CPU and GPU in a single system designed to converge AI and high-performance computing for scientific research.
newsRobotics
Figure 03 humanoids sorted 249,560 packages over 200 hours with zero human control, then Figure signed its first retail deployment with Catalyst Brands as NVIDIA standardized research humanoids on Chinese hardware and Unitree cleared its Shanghai IPO.
newsComputex lightning round
NVIDIA's RTX Spark 1-petaflop superchip, Microsoft's production Maia 200, AMD Helios MI455X racks, and Huawei's Ascend 950DT (moving to August) headline a wave of AI chip deployments at Computex, with Vera Rubin NVL72 racks assembling in 5 minutes and…
newsMore about macroeconomics and geopolitics
Bernie Sanders proposed a one-time 50% tax on the largest AI companies, paid in stock, to fund a public sovereign wealth fund distributing dividends to Americans.
newsNVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter open model with 55B active parameters and 1M context window, under the OpenMDW 1.1 license that includes weights, synthetic data, and training recipes.
newsSakanaAI × Nvidia: Sparser, Faster, Lighter Transformer (TwELL)
Sakana AI and Nvidia introduce TwELL, a sparse transformer format achieving over 95% sparsity in feedforward layers that speeds up inference and training by 20% or more while reducing memory and energy use on billion-parameter models.
newsDwarkesh x Jensen Huang Interview
Jensen Huang discusses NVIDIA's AI strategy and competitive positioning in a wide-ranging interview with Dwarkesh Patel.
newsNvidia GTC 2026 — The Year of Physical AI
Nvidia projects $1 trillion in cumulative AI infrastructure orders through 2027 and unveils Vera Rubin, a next-gen platform with seven new chips designed for robotics, inference, and agentic AI workloads shipping later this year.
newsOpenAI closes the largest private funding round in history, at $122B
OpenAI closed the largest private funding round in history, ultimately $122 billion at an $852 billion post-money valuation, anchored by Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank.
newsAnthropic Raises $30B Series G at $380B Valuation
Anthropic raised $30B in Series G funding at a $380B valuation from over 30 investors including Founders Fund, Coatue, and Nvidia, with revenue now at $20B per month and a potential 2026 IPO in view.
newsTalaas ASIC Chip: Weights Printed on Silicon
Talaas released an ASIC chip with model weights printed directly on silicon, achieving 17,000 tokens/sec on Llama 3.1 8B—45x faster than NVIDIA B200 and 8x faster than Cerebras—at $0.75 per million tokens.
newsNvidia launches Vera Rubin chip
Nvidia launched the Vera Rubin chip, claiming 10x lower inference costs, 4x fewer GPUs needed for MoE training, and 5x better energy efficiency compared to Blackwell.
newsNvidia $20B Groq acquisition
Nvidia acquires Groq's intellectual property and leadership team for $20B while leaving GroqCloud operating independently, a structure that avoids antitrust scrutiny by keeping the revenue-generating business separate.
newsTSMC, the semiconductor chokepoint, and China's EUV prototype
TSMC produces 90% of the world's advanced semiconductors, making a Taiwan invasion an existential economic threat, but China has built a prototype EUV lithography machine in Shenzhen that could eventually break this dependency.
newsGenesis Mission: the White House's AI Manhattan Project
The White House launched Genesis Mission, a DOE supercomputer initiative to automate scientific research in biotech, nuclear, and quantum fields as part of an escalating AI arms race with China.
newsNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free)
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B, a free open-weights mixture-of-experts model optimized for efficient inference and agentic AI systems.
newsOpenAI compute partnerships total 26GW across Broadcom, AMD, and NVIDIA
OpenAI announced 26GW of compute partnerships across Broadcom (10GW), AMD (6GW), and NVIDIA (10GW), with the first NVIDIA systems deploying in late 2026.
newsNic Carter Tweet on AI Opportunities and Negative Effects
Nic Carter warns AI will widen wealth inequality like the post-1850 horse population collapse, predicting job disruptions and regulatory backlash, though the NVIDIA rally has shifted his investment outlook.