Jan. 20, 2026 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) invites proposals for a new collaboration and development program, called APEX, designed to fast-track novel applications of AI in science. This program seeks proposals that apply AI methods in new, creative, or unconventional ways within their domain, such as introducing new AI methods or bringing […]
HPC News Bytes 20260119: Cerebras Breakout, Taiwan’s Chips-Tariff Deal, Apple-Intel Foundry Reunion, Hit Google AI Documentary
January 19, 2026 by
Good Martin Luther King Day (US) to you! Chips in their many forms and the manufacturing of them dominated the HPC-AI industry ….
VAST Data Redesigns Inference Architecture for Agentic AI with NVIDIA
January 8, 2026 by
NEW YORK – – VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced a new inference architecture that enables the NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform – deployments for the era of long-lived, agentic AI. The platform is a new class of AI-native storage infrastructure for gigascale inference. Built on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs and Spectrum-X […]
Qualcomm Unveils Rack-Scale AI Inference Chips
October 27, 2025 by
Qualcomm Technologies today announced the launch of its AI inference solutions for data centers: the Qualcomm AI200 and AI250 chip-based accelerator cards, and racks. The AI200 and AI250 are expected to be commercially available in 2026 and 2027 ….
AI Factory Company Crusoe Raising $1.375B
October 24, 2025 by
SAN FRANCISCO and DENVER – October 24 – Crusoe, the AI factory company, today announced the initial closing of its anticipated $1.375 billion Series E round, bringing the company’s expected valuation to over $10 billion. The oversubscribed round was co-led by technology investors Valor Equity Partners and Mubadala Capital, with participation from 137 Ventures, 1789 […]
IBM and Groq Partner on Enterprise AI Deployment on watsonx Orchestrate
October 21, 2025 by
ARMONK, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 20, 2025 — IBM and Groq today announced a partnership to provide access to Groq’s AI inference technology, GroqCloud, on watsonx Orchestrate. The partnership is intended to provide high-speed AI inference capabilities at a cost that helps accelerate agentic AI deployment. As part of the partnership, Groq and IBM plan to integrate […]
Axelera Announces Europa AIPU
October 21, 2025 by
Eindhoven, NL – Oct. 21, 2025 – Axelera AI, a provider of AI hardware acceleration technology, today announced Europa, an AI processor unit (AIPU) designed for multi-user generative AI and computer vision applications. The company said Europa’s combination of processing power, energy and thermal efficiency, compact packaging, and multiple form factor options are intended for compute-intensive, multi-modal […]
Cloudera’s Dream of a Universal Data Platform May Be Nearing Realization
October 20, 2025 by
Cloudera’s “magnificent obsession,” that of building a single, universal data platform with a single, unified control plane, is something the company has thought about and worked ….
OpenAI and Thermo Fisher Scientific in Life Sciences Collaboration
October 17, 2025 by
WALTHAM, Mass. — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) announced AI utilization plans with OpenAI in a collaboration intended to improve drug development. As part of this collaboration, Thermo Fisher is embedding Open AI APIs into areas of its business that range from product development, service delivery, customer engagement and operational efficiency. The collaboration will: […]
DOE Announces Fusion Power Roadmap, Including HPC and AI Strategy
October 17, 2025 by
Oct. 17, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy released its Fusion Science and Technology (FS&T) Roadmap, a national strategy to accelerate the development and commercialization of fusion energy on the most rapid, responsible timeline in history. The Roadmap defines DOE’s Build–Innovate–Grow strategy to align public investment and private innovation to deliver commercial fusion power […]
