Home / Tag Archives: Nvidia (page 2)

Tag Archives: Nvidia

AI Tokens Pump on Positive Industry News as X Corp Announces xAI Shareholding

A number of AI tokens have seen recent significant increases, following Musk’s xAI shareholder announcement, along with other news updates. Artificial intelligence (AI) tokens climbed over the past weekend following news from AI companies about the future of the sector. X Corp owner and Chairman Elon Musk said on Sunday that the company’s shareholders would have a 25% stake in xAI, Musk’s new AI company. Another factor that pumped AI stock over the last few days is news that former OpenAI...

Read More »

US Treasury Yields Mixed as Market Anticipates October Jobs Report

As investors and analysts await the official jobs report for October, the 2-year and 10-year Treasury yields moved in opposite directions. US Treasury yields came in varied on Friday as investors wait on the jobs report for October for an indication of the labor market and the effect of interest rates. While the 2-year Treasury climbed by more than two basis points to 4.9974%, the 10-year Treasury yield fell to 4.6658%, losing less than one basis point. The market expects October’s job...

Read More »

Nonprofit Organization Purchases 24,000 Nvidia AI Chips for $500 Million

The deployment of the 24,000 chips should be completed by February 2024. Voltage Park, a nonprofit organization founded by billionaire Jed McCaleb, has acquired approximately 24,000 Nvidia H100 chips for approximately $500 million. According to The Business Time, the organization plans to lease AI computing power at a low cost to address the shortage of these chips. Eric Park, CEO of Voltage, stated: “The current ecosystem for machine learning is fundamentally flawed.” Therefore, the...

Read More »

Chinese AI Startup Zhipu Secures $342M in Funding from Alibaba, Tencent

Zhipu and Baichuan are the two leading startups involved in China’s push for using generative artificial intelligence competing with Google and OpenAI. Amid the buzzing AI market, Chinese AI startup Zhipu announced that it has secured $342 million (or 2.5 billion yuan) in funding from Chinese tech giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) and Tencent Holdings Ltd (HKG: 0700). HongShan, the former Sequoia China along with food delivery leader Meituan joined the recent funding round....

Read More »

Foxconn Joins Hands with Nvidia to Build AI Factories

The two chipmaking giants will work on building AI factories for electric vehicles where Nvidia plans to use its own chips and software for the development. Two chip-making giants – Foxconn and Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA) – have finally come together to build “AI factories” and data centers for a range of applications including self-driving cars. The announcement came earlier today Wednesday, October 18. Foxconn Chairman Liu Young-way and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at Foxconn’s...

Read More »

Tech Giants Gained $2.4 Trillion from Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2023

A new report notes that AI has brought trillions in good fortune to tech giants in the United States, like Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon. The ongoing AI explosion has benefited several tech companies in the US, adding trillions to their market capitalizations in a year. According to a venture capital firm Accel report, AI has helped US tech giants increase their valuations by $2.4 trillion. Tech Giants Enjoy AI Boom Accel published its annual Euroscape Report, noting the benefits tech...

Read More »

Saudi Arabia Working with China to Build Arabic-focused AI System

Saudi Arabia and Chinese universities to work on AceGPT, an Arabic-focused AI system based on Meta’s LlaMA2, designed as an AI assistant for Arabic speakers. Every big country on the planet has been spearheading efforts to build new artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has joined forces with two Chinese universities to create an Arabic-focused artificial intelligence (AI) system. This large language model (LLM),...

Read More »

Dow Jones Tanks 400 Points amid Interest Rate Spike, Turns Negative for 2023

Analysts have warned that the rise in the bond yields could pose significant challenge to equity market and other risky investments like crypto. On Tuesday, October 3, the US equity market came under major selling pressure as the US 10-year Treasury Yield surged to the levels last seen 16 years ago in 2007. The surge in interest rates has raised concerns about freezing the housing market and pushing the economy into recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced its most...

Read More »

AMD Shares Surge Nearly 5% amid Praise from Microsoft CTO

The longstanding partnership between Microsoft and AMD has been a strategic alliance that has shaped the tech industry in various ways. A recent report has revealed that shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NASDAQ: AMD) rose nearly 5% on Thursday following comments from Kevin Scott, the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) about the chipmaker’s efforts to strengthen its position in AI, an arena long dominated by Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA). With AMD’s stock up...

Read More »

Goldman Sachs Says Rally in AI Tech Stocks Is No Bubble

According to Goldman Sachs, the spike in AI stocks is here to stay, and reflects the beginning of a new tech wave, not a bubble. Global investment banking and financial services firm Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) has stated that the current explosion in artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is not a bubble. Despite worries that the spike in AI interest and related tech stocks might be weak, Goldman Sachs states that the popularity of these stocks is more of a revolution than a bubble. Some...

Read More »