Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
Groq raised 350 million at a 3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center…
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Groq raised 350 million at a 3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center…
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
Vision-language models (VLMs) enable embodied agents to reason and act from visual observations and language instructions. Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training enhances these capabilities using task feedback, but current on-policy RL runtimes execute rollout, reference scoring, and actor training in strict serial phases. While effective for text-only RL, this phase-granular execution is wasteful for VLMs, where processing dense video inputs and prompt prefixes occupies a large fraction of each phase. Because prefix processing is independent of the generated response, it can be run alongside rollout decoding, which leaves GPU compute capacity underutilized, without breaking synchronous on-policy semantics. We present Rollplex, a runtime that decomposes the reference and training phase and moves the prefix computation into the rollout decode window. Realizing this schedule requires more than concurrent kernel launches: naive colocation of Qwen2.5-VL-32\,B requires roughly 165\,GiB per GPU, while rollout and training prefer different tensor-parallel (TP) degrees and weight layouts. Rollplex addresses these constraints with two mechanisms. Phase-aware memory management controls HBM residency according to producer--consumer lifetimes. Parallelism-aware weight sharing uses the same physical storage for layout-compatible tensors across distinct TP degrees and reconstructs only incompatible tensors, avoiding a complete second actor copy. On 32 H800 GPUs, Rollplex achieves 1.23--1.30speedup over serial colocation and 1.57--2.24over disaggregation under the same GPU budget, while preserving the synchronous RL update.
Indonesia is taking charge of its AI future. This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH), NVIDIA and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) launched the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) in Yogyakarta — the country’s first university-based AI technology center. Established under Indonesia’s AI Center of […]
Learn how to combine OpenAI-compatible endpoints on Amazon SageMaker AI with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime to build a multi-agent workflow where each specialized agent uses the model best suited to its job. This post also shows how to get token-level observability from SageMaker endpoints that Strands Agents does not instrument by default.
Learn how OneAdvanced, a UK enterprise software provider, built a UK-sovereign AI platform by self-hosting Llama 4 Maverick and Llama Guard 4 on Amazon SageMaker AI, with a RAG pipeline on pgvector and over 50 agents built with Strands Agents SDK on Amazon ECS.
Running large language model inference at scale forces a KV cache trade-off: oversized GPU instances or slow time-to-first-token. This post builds a tiered KV cache on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod that extends the cache into a shared, distributed NVMe pool with Curvine, so replicas reuse cache at near-local-disk speeds on cost-efficient instances.
Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI, specialized cyber defense models from OpenAI, are now available on Amazon Bedrock to eligible customers. Both models run with zero-operator access enforced at the chip, keeping your code and vulnerability data secure.
Photographers are among the most skeptical audiences for generative AI. Learn how Pixieset used Amazon Bedrock to launch an AI-generated alt text feature to millions of users in four months, reaching 35% adoption by automating the tedious image SEO work photographers avoid, without touching the creative craft they take pride in.
The open source ecosystem is making it easier for AI enthusiasts and developers to build, customize and run increasingly capable agents locally. Throughout August, NVIDIA is celebrating the partners and open source communities moving local AI forward, along with the models, applications and tools emerging across the ecosystem. That includes NVIDIA’s latest open models, software […]
The Amazon SageMaker AI Spaces add-on for Amazon EKS runs managed JupyterLab and Code Editor environments on the cluster your ML team already operates. This post shows how to install and configure the add-on, connect from the browser and from VS Code over SSH-over-SSM, and move your team to OpenID Connect sign-in with Amazon Cognito.
GPU utilization can read healthy while your queue backs up, and a new replica takes minutes to warm. Here's how to pick autoscaling metrics, tune scale-up/down windows, and budget for cold starts on dedicated inference.
Figure 1: CUDA-to-MLX optimization translation map. CUDA optimization knowledge can be translated into architecture-native MLX strategies rather than copied instruction-for-instruction. We face a new epoch in computing. Hardware is changing rapidly — not just faster GPUs, but a growing range of chips from different vendors, each with its own architecture and often tailored to specific AI workloads. Software is changing…
At this week’s AI Summit in San Francisco, South Korean President Jae Myung Lee and some of the country’s top business leaders and researchers are meeting with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners to chart Korea’s AI progress. Building on NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s visit to Korea last month, this week’s discussions and announcements advance […]
Before a healthcare robot can be useful in the real world, it has to learn how the physical world pushes back. Anatomy varies. Instruments bend, press, slip and interact with tissue. Imaging can be noisy or incomplete. And the rare, edge scenarios developers most need to understand don’t appear on schedule. That creates one of […]
The AI era runs on AI infrastructure. Many of these advanced systems are built and tested in Texas. Wistron opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility today in Fort Worth — a 324,000-square-foot greenfield plant producing superchips at the heart of some of the world’s most capable AI systems. In front of an audience of Wistron […]
From open models to real-time simulation, AI and graphics breakthroughs are transforming media, content creation and robotics.
No more two-year compute contracts. Together AI and YC just gave YC startups a faster way to get GPUs.
See how Together AI is improving production GPU clusters with passive health checks, node repair, stronger Slurm reliability, OIDC, and startup scripts.