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AI and Knowledge: Pablo Castro on Microsoft’s AI Knowledge Systems
Pablo leads the AI Knowledge team in Microsoft's CoreAI division, focusing on information understanding and retrieval systems for AI apps and agents.
Fine-tuning Diffusion Models at Scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and Diffusers
NVIDIA NeMo Automodel enables distributed diffusion model fine-tuning on Diffusers-format models without checkpoint conversion, supporting FSDP2, LoRA, and multi-node scaling.
General Compute lands $400M loan backed by inference chips
General Compute's $400M loan from Upper90 may be the first to use inference-specific chips as collateral, signaling a market shift toward cheaper AI infrastructure.
Rime raises $24M for enterprise voice AI trained on proprietary data
Voice AI startup Rime raises $24M to build speech-to-speech models trained on proprietary conversational data for enterprise phone call automation.
OpenAI’s first hardware is reportedly a screenless moving speaker
OpenAI's first hardware device is reportedly a screenless smart speaker that can move, designed as an AI companion and developed with former Apple engineers.
New York State halts construction of all new data centers
New York is the first state to halt data center construction, barring permits for facilities 50 megawatts or larger until an environmental review is complete.
Nvidia’s compute marketplace success now works against it
Nvidia's stock has fallen 15% since May as GPU supply catches up, while memory companies like Micron thrive on soaring DRAM prices.
Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A for enterprise AI agent infrastructure
Prime Intellect raised $130M at a $1B valuation to help enterprises build AI agents without relying on frontier labs like OpenAI.
ZML launches free inference server for multi-chip LLM deployment
ZML releases ZML/LLMD, a free inference server that runs LLMs across Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal, and Intel Arc, aiming to break vendor lock-in.