GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, which runs on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is now available in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. It generates tokens up to 8 times faster than Astra’s standard mode.
NVIDIA estimates that each megawatt of AI data center capacity costs about $60 million to build. The company sets out the factors it says determine the return on such investments, starting with earning capacity.
NVIDIA will release a version of its DGX Spark desktop AI computer with 64GB of unified memory this month, built by partners including Acer. The company links it to open models becoming small enough to run locally.
The Nvidia Shield TV Pro, first released in 2019, now sells for $299.99, a $100 increase that Ars Technica attributes to AI.
U.S. authorities have arrested a tech company CEO accused of smuggling $300 million worth of Nvidia chips into China. The case is the latest in a series of arrests over illicit exports of Nvidia hardware.
Amazon has announced a $1 billion plan to address opposition to its data centers. It was praised for ending non-disclosure agreements but criticized for downplaying data center pollution.