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 Indonesian IT service management company Lintasarta has launched an AI cloud service called GPU Merdeka, a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) would be a sovereign AI cloud featuring Nvidia chips.  The GPU Merdeka service features GPU servers with a configuration of 8x Nvidia H100 SXM Tensor Core GPUs,...

Singapore's Singtel and the Bridge Alliance are set to launch a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offering in Southeast Asia. In February 2024 when the company first announched the launch, it mentioned that Singtel’s GPUaaS will be powered by Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU-powered clusters that are opera...

Foundry has launched its GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads which it claims can reduce operational complexity and compute cost by up to six times.  The company seeks to overcome the GPU shortage by turning to existing GPUs that it claims are "vastly und...

Microsoft and Palantir Technologies are teaming up to provide cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics capabilities to the US Defense and Intelligence Community units to help them access Microsoft's large language models (LLMs) via Azure OpenAI Service within Palantir's AI Platforms ...

 AI cloud company CoreWeave has added several hyperscale executives to its team and has appointed Chen Goldberg as SVP of engineering and Sachin Jain as chief operating officer.  Sachin Jain came from Oracle, where he spent less than a year at the company in charge of AI Infrastructure, data c...

Professor Tsumoru Shintake of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has proposed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that is supposedly superior to the method currently used in semiconductor manufacturing. The proposed method uses smaller EUV light sources, whi...

 Australian data center operator NextDC has received Nvidia DGX-Ready certification which enables the operator to support Australian organizations with digital infrastructure architectures designed for Nvidia's artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. NextDC's chief customer and commercial offi...

 Artificial general intelligence (AGI) startup SingularityNet,  which is developing decentralized and blockchain-based AI infrastructure announced that it will be investing  $53 million in data center supercomputing modules. Half of this investment will be used for the creation of  world’s fir...

Gcore, an Edge artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud provider, has secured $60m in a Series A funding round led by game developer and publisher Wargaming, with participation from Constructor Capital and Han River Partners.  “We are on the cusp of an AI revolution that will transform how compa...

Oracle, Microsoft, and OpenAI have revealed plans to expand the Microsoft Azure AI platform to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)  Supercluster, for training AI models. It can scale 64k Nvidia Blackwell GPUs or GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips connected by ultra-low-latency RDMA cluster network...

Data center operator Soluna has secured $30 million in funding from Spring Lane Capital to expand its data center in Texas. Soluna said the financing will accommodate approximately 12,700 Bitcoin mining rigs, each with a power consumption of around 3.5kW, totaling 48MW. Soluna has an existing ...

GPU designer Nvidia beat Wall Street expectations for sales and earnings in the latest quarter, with record revenue of $26 billion."The next industrial revolution has begun — companies and countries are partnering with Nvidia to shift the trillion-dollar traditional data centers to accelerated...

Cerebras Systems and Aleph Alpha have entered an agreement to develop sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, first focusing on creating generative AI models that are trained to a high degree of accuracy. This will be done alongside BWI GmBH, the German public IT services provider ow...

Liberty Global, the parent company of telco Virgin Media O2 and Edge data center provider AtlasEdge, this week said it's being cautious in its approach to AI adoption. at an event held in London this week by the company, Enrique Rodriguez, EVP and chief technology officer of Liberty Global, ac...

AI cloud provider CoreWeave has revealed its plans to invest  £1 billion in expanding its operations in the UK which will enable the launch of two data centers in the UK in 2024, with further expansion plans for 2025. The cloud provider has also opened an office in London, which will be its Eu...

A new GPU cloud provider Nscale which relies on AMD hardware has announced its official launch and is now offering services based on AMD’s Instinct MI300X GPU accelerators from a cryptomining firm and sister company Arkon Energy’s data center in Glomfjord, Norway. “Over the coming years, AI wi...

Oracle is set to deploy GPU-based infrastructure in a dedicated Digital Realty data center in Northern Virginia as a part of a collaboration between the two companies to provide artificial intelligence (AI) services for enterprises. Digital Realty’s website notes that the company has 16 data c...

GPU cloud provider CoreWeave announced that it has secured $1.1 billion in new Series C funding round this week led by Coatue, with participation from Magnetar who led the last primary round, as well as Altimeter Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Lykos Global Management....

Reka, an artificial intelligence (AI) research and product company, has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to support its AI models and will use it to create multimodal models that will support over 20 languages and are trained on OCI AI Infrastructure based on Nvidia GPUs."We are part...