Nemotron 3.5 Lightning runs 30B on 3B active parameters
Thirty billion parameters, and only three billion of them wake up per token. That ratio is the whole pitch for what NVIDIA published on 11 August: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a ...
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NVIDIA’s $500B compute financing and the 25% backstop
Six phone calls, and nobody said no. That is roughly how Jensen Huang described it, and on 10 August NVIDIA announced memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman ...
Nvidia SSI deal: $5B reported, 10x compute on Vera Rubin
A four-line post on X, from an account that had barely spoken in two years. That's how the biggest number in this week's AI coverage got loose. On 27 July, ...
SK and NVIDIA signed letters of intent, not a $500B deal
Three deals landed in one afternoon at a San Francisco hotel, and the biggest number came with the least paperwork. On July 24 SK Group and NVIDIA announced plans for ...
Open Weights letter: 25 signers, and what it changes
Twenty five logos at the bottom of a three page PDF, and not one of them is OpenAI. That's the story. On July 24 a coalition fronted by NVIDIA and ...
NVIDIA Spectrum-6: what 102.4 Tb/s Ethernet changes
So NVIDIA put a 102.4-terabit-per-second Ethernet switch on stage on July 21, and the number is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Here's the short answer: Spectrum-6 roughly doubles the ...
BMS committed to eight Vera Rubin systems, not a cluster
So Bristol Myers Squibb put out a press release on July 20, and the headline calls it the most powerful AI factory in life sciences. Read past the headline and ...
NVIDIA Ising Decoder ColorCode 1: what 347x really means
Scroll down to Figure 1 in NVIDIA's post and there's a small asterisk next to d=31. Easy to miss. It's also most of the story, because the 347.7x logical error ...
NVIDIA Jetson T3000 and T2000: Thor for mainstream robots
So Jensen Huang stands on a stage in Japan holding a module smaller than a paperback, and that's the actual news. On July 16 NVIDIA added two chips to its ...
Nvidia cut half its authorised AI chip buyers in Asia
A small cloud in Singapore quotes you GPU hours at a price that makes your finance person smile. Then the quote goes quiet, and nobody explains why. Here's a decent ...