Cryptocurrency Billionaire Invests $500 Million in NVIDIA Chips for AI


Nvidia-led Open Safe AI Alliance exceeds 120 members in its first week. Its SAFE working group, managed by the Linux Foundation, calls for proposals on AI security incident handling. The alliance refined its approach at Black Hat, focusing on confidential reporting, notification mechanisms, and blameless post-mortems to advance industry-wide AI security sharing.....
Nvidia has made a substantial investment in SSI, the secretive lab of former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, per WSJ. In exchange for a large number of flagship GPUs, the lab aims to boost computing power by an order of magnitude, having previously relied on Google TPUs. This marks a rare direct bet by Nvidia on frontier AI safety research.....
Nvidia invests $5B in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence (SSI) lab for long-term collaboration on AI compute and model R&D. First investment after understanding SSI's progress. Financial terms undisclosed. SSI will scale Nvidia compute. Announced Monday.....
Samsung and Broadcom have reached a long-term deep cooperation, covering the entire supply chain of memory chips, foundry, and advanced packaging. It is expected that by 2030, the scale of cooperation will break through $200 billion, marking that AI chips have entered a stage of 'design plus manufacturing' deep integration. The core technology is Broadcom's ASIC custom design capabilities combined with Samsung's manufacturing. The two companies will jointly tackle challenges in sub-2nm process technology and HBM high-bandwidth memory fields.
Silicon Valley's debate over open-source AI intensifies. OpenAI and Anthropic lobby for restricting Chinese open-source models citing national security, while Huang, Nadella, Musk, Zuckerberg, Pichai back open-source. China's rapid rise with models from Zhipu, Moonshot challenges US lead.....