OpenAI explains how it scaled Habitat, its storage system for ChatGPT, with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching and Azure Cosmos DB. The company says reads became 12 times faster.
Enterprise AI is entering a more cost-conscious phase as inference spending rises. Business leaders are weighing where models run, which ones they use and how much data they are prepared to entrust to third parties, and those choices are reshaping purchasing decisions.
Depending on the investor, AI looks either like a huge opportunity or an increasingly risky bet, given heavy infrastructure spending and growing public hostility to data centers. The column argues both views hold, as large venture investments in AI continued this week.
CNBC reports from Nvidia's GTC conference in Berlin, where enthusiasm for the chipmaker's chief sat alongside robot demonstrations and signs of strain among the so-called neocloud providers.
To keep pace with soaring demand for AI computing power, Schneider Electric is betting on prefabricated, modular designs. It has unveiled new electrical infrastructure developed with NVIDIA to speed up the build-out of AI data centers.
Nvidia chief Jensen Huang is making his first trip to Kazakhstan. The visit puts a spotlight on the country's growing AI ambitions and its appeal to international business.