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☆ How Nvidia's AI strengths are enhancing the businesses of Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

There are "major companies and verticals that have not even considered the H100" yet, he added, referring to Nvidia's AI must-have GPU. A few weeks ago, we combed through the latest earnings reports from Google-parent Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta Platforms and Amazon to see how their AI spending plans are benefitting Nvidia. After Wednesday evening's killer quarterly release, Nvidia talked about how it is helping the businesses of fellow Club names Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon. Alphabet continues to heavily invest in AI applications to improve the performance of its services including Google DeepMind, Google Services, Gemini, and Google Cloud. "Nvidia DGX Cloud will expand its list of partners to include Amazon's AWS, joining Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud.

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☆ Sam Altman wants to solve the great AI chip shortage himself
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

That's according to a report from Bloomberg , which stated that Altman had been busy pitching heavyweight investors to back a new AI chip venture that would give his company a lot more control over its chip supply. AdvertisementBut a bunch of tech companies have started designing their own. In November, for instance, Microsoft unveiled its new Azure Maia AI chip , designed with large language model (LLM) training in mind. Despite this, Altman's plan has already won fans. "Building the best AI assistants, AIs for creators, AIs for businesses and more – that needs advances in every area of AI."

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☆ Nvidia isn't the only winner from Meta Platform's massive spending on AI chips
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | In Kevinstankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Meta Platforms is planning to pay Nvidia billions of dollars this year for its cutting-edge AI technology. Nvidia's stock has been off to a blistering start this year, up more than 20%, including a 3% gain Friday. Estimates on Nvidia's share of the AI training market vary, but is generally thought to be well above 80%. Still, Nvidia's stock more than tripled in 2023, leading the S & P 500, and has so far been a big winner in 2024. As Meta secures more AI chips, they will be placed in data centers where their computational capabilities will be utilized.

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☆ How Amazon is racing to catch Microsoft and Google in generative A.I. with custom AWS chips
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Katie Tarasov | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

In this article METAGOOGLMSFTAMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTChips as 'true differentiation'In the long run, Dekate said, Amazon's custom silicon could give it an edge in generative AI. Microsoft has yet to announce the Athena AI chip it's been working on, reportedly in partnership with AMD. So you train the machine learning models and then you run inference against those trained models," Wood said. Amazon's custom chips, from left to right, Inferentia, Trainium and Graviton are shown at Amazon's Seattle headquarters on July 13, 2023. An Amazon employee works on custom AI chips, in a jacket branded with AWS' chip Inferentia, at the AWS chip lab in Austin, Texas, on July 25, 2023.

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