Investors say Nvidia's growth confirms expansion phase of AI capital spending
IT stocks rallied on Friday after Nvidia's strong revenue forecast reinforced optimism around the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.
As Anthropic scales its Claude family of AI models, the firm is looking to produce hardware that can fulfill its voracious appetite for data crunching and reduce its reliance on Nvidia chips
"AI has reached its inflection point. It's doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue," Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said.
The deal will also include ordering another 45,000 of Nvidia's GB-300 GPUs (part of the Blackwell family architecture), which are currently the latest on offer by the company
The deal would create a strange paradox. Nvidia wants open models to thrive, but for a more self-interested reason: to stop OpenAI and other large AI companies from threatening its chip business.
Authorities are looking into whether Apex - a unit of shipping giant Kuehne+Nagel - may have transported AI systems made by Super Micro Computer Inc. in violation of US export restrictions
The deal would give Nvidia control of Hugging Face - which hosts open-source large language models and datasets
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares excluding Japan was up 0.7 per cent, on track to extend gains into a third consecutive day after Nvidia reported that quarterly revenue more than doubled
AM Intelligence, part of the group that owns renewable energy producer Greenko Group Plc, has placed a binding order under its broader $8-billion plan to set up 1-gigawatt of computing capacity
The entire tech sector is holding its breath for Nvidia's results on Wednesday; investors are aware how hard it will be for the chip maker to meet stratospheric expectations
The price hikes will go into effect on systems shipped early next year and will impact systems including those with the flagship Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips
Leading tech firms are increasingly tying together chips, power and data center development as they race to secure the infrastructure needed for increasingly power-hungry AI models.
With its latest move, Nvidia is poised to provide potentially tens of billions of dollars of what's called "residual value" support for debt deals tied to the artificial intelligence build out
The proposed investment is part of Nvidia's talks with OpenAI and SB Energy on providing around $100 billion in credit support for the planned Ohio data centre campus
US insurers, money managers and banks are expected to form the core investor base as Goldman explores private credit and debt structures for the financing.
L&T's Vyoma.AI will set up a 10,000-GPU Nvidia B300 AI factory at its Chennai data centre campus for US-based AI firm Together AI
Nvidia has introduced Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter open model for agentic workloads, as Nvidia, Meta and others back a broader industry push for open-weight AI
Big Tech companies have signaled that spending on AI would not slow down, with combined outlays set to surpass $730 billion this year
The company has not set a release date for Nemotron 4 and has yet to complete final training