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Ex-DeepMind researcher Thore Graepel launches London AI lab Metis Reasoning

Thore Graepel, who helped build Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, has launched Metis Reasoning in London. The company’s founding claim is that large language models cannot be trusted to reason. Its founders want to apply the lessons of AlphaGo to general reasoning instead. The company set out its thesis in a white paper titled “The Age of […]

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Meta details Prometheus, the Ohio supercluster heading for 1 million GPUs

Meta’s Prometheus supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, already runs hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs across several buildings, and Meta plans to grow it to about 1 million. The company set out the details in an engineering blog post on Monday. The first phase of the gigawatt-scale cluster is finished. Meta used it to train […]

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Blackwall quadruples its valuation to $2.2bn as bots take over the web

“Blackwall has built something rare: a security company that grows with the internet itself,” said Warda Shaheen, a general partner at AVP. “It is already the layer in front of millions of websites, and as more of the web’s traffic comes from agents, the company in that position becomes indispensable.” AVP has led a $100 […]

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Inception says its Mercury 3 model beats GPT-6 Luna and runs far faster

Inception, the Redwood City AI lab, released Mercury 3 on Monday. It is the newest version of what the company calls a diffusion LLM, a design that differs from the systems behind most chatbots. Most language models are autoregressive. They write one token at a time, each one chosen after the last. A diffusion model […]

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DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine that runs its AI models

DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the software it uses to run its AI models in production. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on X on Tuesday and published the code on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence. For now, it supports only DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. 🚀 Introducing DeepInfer, our in-house inference framework, now fully open source! Powering […]

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ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards. Their combined sticker price is over $35bn. Reuters reported the orders on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. TNW has not independently verified the report. Nvidia has told customers and partners it cannot guarantee it will […]

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Modal says Nvidia’s Vera CPU doubles throughput for its AI sandboxes

Modal plans to run its Sandboxes product on Nvidia’s Arm-based Vera CPU, its first step away from x86 chips. In Modal’s own tests, Vera handled up to twice as many tasks as an Intel server when packed with containers. The results have not been independently checked. Modal plans to run its AI agent sandboxes on […]

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Amazon’s TorchNeuron lets PyTorch code run on AWS Trainium chips

Amazon has launched TorchNeuron, an open-source backend that lets PyTorch code run on its Trainium AI chips with a one-line change. It goes into public beta on 20 October under the Apache 2.0 licence and supports Trainium2 and Trainium3. Some PyTorch features are not yet supported. Amazon has launched TorchNeuron, a tool that lets developers […]

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Nvidia reportedly wants all its HBM suppliers to use TSMC’s 3nm process

Samsung Electronics will make a core part of Nvidia’s custom memory chips on TSMC’s 3-nanometre process. The Seoul Economic Daily reported the move on Sunday, citing industry sources. It would be the first time the two have worked together on making high-bandwidth memory (HBM). The part is the base die, the logic layer at the […]

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Amnon Shashua’s doubleAI launches an AI that speeds up code while it runs

Amnon Shashua’s startup doubleAI has launched Maxwell, an AI model that works inside running software to make it use less computing power. Shashua co-founded the Tel Aviv company and is its chief executive. The company announced Maxwell on Monday and opened it for early access. Shashua set out the company’s plans to Belle Lin of […]

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