The Barcelona Supercomputing Center's AI Factory Accelerator Programme is now fully running after a pilot, offering startups sovereign compute, technical support and training. Many of the participating companies are also part of NVIDIA's Inception startup programme.
Anthropic is reportedly negotiating a $45 billion compute deal with Nscale. It would add to the long series of very large compute agreements Anthropic has signed over the past year.
CoreWeave's bonds fell into distressed territory last week, with investors demanding a yield more than 1,000 basis points above government bonds. The slide has fed questions about whether the AI build-out is a private credit bubble.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang discussed Germany's AI roadmap at an event in a former Berlin power station, with a focus on industrial uses. Huang pointed to NVIDIA's long ties with German industry, from gaming and workstations to the car sector.
After the cost per run of its AI code reviewer doubled, Cloudflare analysed its token usage. Prompt caching and routing requests to the right model cut its inference spending by 68% and made reviews faster.
Tenstorrent, which positions itself as a challenger to Nvidia, raised $1.5 billion and is now valued at $6.2 billion. The company chose to stay independent after attracting acquisition interest earlier this year.