Tag: Artificial Intelligence

Meta Platforms is reportedly investing $6.5 billion with Samsung Foundry to produce its third-generation MTIA (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator) chips using a 2nm process. This strategic move signifies a shift from TSMC and aims to reduce reliance on NVIDIA GPUs, lower supply chain risks, and support Meta's ambitious goal of 5 gigawatts of computing capacity by 2030 for its AI and cloud initiatives. The deal is expected to bolster Meta's competitive position in the rapidly evolving AI and cloud computing markets. Context Meta has been increasingly focused on artificial intelligence and cloud services, necessitating advanced computing power. The MTIA chips represent Meta's third generation of in-house processors, designed to optimize performance for AI workloads. The shift to Samsung...

Lot dropped this week and there's a pretty clear through-line, so figured I'd pull it together. Model releases: - OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 (Sol/Terra/Luna). The bit worth noting isn't the flagship — it's Terra, reportedly matching GPT-5.5 quality at ~2x cheaper, with Luna aimed at the low-cost end. - Google shipped Gemini 3.5 Flash (beats 3.1 Pro on several benchmarks), plus Nano Banana 2 Lite (images ~$0.034/1K-res) and Gemini Omni Flash (video ~$0.10/sec via API). - xAI made Grok 3 GA and Grok 4.1 live for everyone. Grok 5 still hasn't shipped, which is its own story at this point. Vertical / enterprise: - Anthropic launched Claude Science for pharma and lab research. Separately, the US govt lifted the export restrictions on Fable 5 / Mythos 5 that it had imposed only weeks earlier. - Mis...