Enlarge / The GB200 “superchip” covered with a fanciful blue explosion. Nvidia / Benj Edwards reader comments 89 On Monday, Nvidia unveiled the Blackwell B200 tensor core chip—the company’s most powerful single-chip GPU, with 208 billion transistors—which Nvidia claims can reduce AI inference operating costs (such as running ChatGPT) and energy consumption by up to… Read More »
reader comments 65 On Tuesday, Nvidia released Chat With RTX, a free personalized AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT that can run locally on a PC with an Nvidia RTX graphics card. It uses Mistral or Llama open-weights LLMs and can search through local files and answer questions about them. Chat With RTX works on Windows… Read More »
Nvidia / Benj Edwards reader comments 78 On Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that every country should control its own AI infrastructure so it can protect its culture, Reuters reports. He called this concept “Sovereign AI,” which an Nvidia blog post defined as each country owning “the production of their own intelligence.” Huang made… Read More »
Enlarge / A photo of the Microsoft Azure Maia 100 chip that has been altered with splashes of color by the author to look as if AI itself were bursting forth from its silicon substrate. Microsoft | Benj Edwards reader comments 20 with On Wednesday at the Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft announced two custom chips… Read More »
Enlarge / Eight Nvidia H200 GPUs covered with a fanciful blue explosion that figuratively represents raw compute power bursting forth in a glowing flurry. Nvidia | Benj Edwards reader comments 47 with On Monday, Nvidia announced the HGX H200 Tensor Core GPU, which utilizes the Hopper architecture to accelerate AI applications. It’s a follow-up of… Read More »
Enlarge / A press photo of the Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. reader comments 30 with On Tuesday, chip designer Nvidia announced in an SEC filing that new US export restrictions on its high-end AI GPU chips to China are now in effect sooner than expected, according to a report from Reuters. The curbs were… Read More »
OpenAI / Benj Edwards reader comments 44 with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and DALL-E 3 generative AI products, is exploring the possibility of manufacturing its own AI accelerator chips, according to Reuters. Citing anonymous sources, the Reuters report indicates that OpenAI is considering the option due to a shortage of specialized AI GPU chips… Read More »
reader comments 10 with GPUs from all six of the major suppliers are vulnerable to a newly discovered attack that allows malicious websites to read the usernames, passwords, and other sensitive visual data displayed by other websites, researchers have demonstrated in a paper published Tuesday. The cross-origin attack allows a malicious website from one domain—say,… Read More »
Enlarge / The Nvidia logo superimposed over China’s flag. Benj Edwards / Nvidia reader comments 112 with 61 posters participating Share this story In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last Friday, Nvidia reported that US government officials have ordered restrictions on sales of its top AI chips to China and Russia. The new restrictions (in… Read More »