Hardware News & Updates

NVIDIA has released MiniMax M2.7, a sparse mixture-of-experts model designed for efficiency and capability in complex tasks such as reasoning and software engineering. The open weights release is available through NVIDIA and the open-source inference ecosystem.

SiFive, a company behind the open-source RISC-V CPU design, raises $400 million at a $3.65 billion valuation with backing from Nvidia, valued at $400 million.

Slinky Slurm-Operator integrates Slurm job scheduling with Kubernetes, streamlining deployment and management of AI workloads.

NVIDIA nvCOMP introduces a GPU-accelerated lossless compression library to reduce checkpoint sizes and improve training efficiency. Savings up to $56,000/month are achievable with MoE models and 128 NVIDIA DGX B200 GPUs.

Samsung Electronics forecasted a record quarterly profit due to strong demand for artificial intelligence chips, with its operating profit projected to reach 57.2 trillion won ($37.8 billion).