NVIDIA and Foxconn Collaborate to Develop AI-Focused New Data Center


Saudi Aramco will acquire a 49% stake in PIF's wholly owned AI startup HUMAIN, while PIF retains 51%. The deal will be completed by transferring key AI assets and injecting about 9.9 billion Saudi riyals (approximately 17.55 billion yuan), rather than simply throwing money at it. This means Saudi Arabia's national-level AI flagship has been brought into the oil giant's balance sheet, and the world's largest petrochemical company is formally increasing its AI bets.
NVIDIA has officially open-sourced Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a new large speech transcription model. It is aimed at professional speech processing and is industry-leading in core metrics such as multilingual transcription accuracy, long-audio processing, and multi-speaker separation. It adopts a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with approximately 34 billion total parameters and activates only part of the parameters in each forward pass to improve efficiency. Overall, it provides a new open-source option for professional speech transcription.
According to Bloomberg, NVIDIA CEO Huang Renxun's trip to Europe, on the 13th, announced an additional 2 billion dollar investment on top of the existing one. He revealed that NVIDIA has invested 8 billion dollars in Europe over the past year, and this time continues to increase investment. As the world's largest AI chip supplier, Huang Renxun has promised to invest billions of dollars worldwide, both to mature AI applications and to drive demand for its own chips. During this trip, he also met with French President Macron.
IDC: Nvidia's China data-center AI chip share fell to 34% in H1 2026. US export curbs limited supply, aiding local rivals. Its China AI accelerator shipments were 678k in Jan-Jun, down 44% YoY. CEO Jensen Huang criticized Washington, saying curbs cede a $50B market.....
Trump pushed to change the term "artificial intelligence" (AI) that has been used for decades to "super intelligence" (SI). He accused "artificial" of implying falsehood in September, signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to use SI in official communications, and threatened to label those who continue to use AI as enemies. Pressure reached Silicon Valley, with Musk leading to rename SpaceXAI as SpaceXSI, followed closely by Salesforce's Benioff.