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Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence — The Verge

by the end of this year, Meta will own more than 340,000 of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, writes Alex Heath. Here is the link: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/18/24042354/mark-zuckerberg-meta-agi-reorg-interview

The Taiwanese American cousins going head-to-head in the global AI race — CNN

The chief executives of Nvidia and AMD aren’t just two of the most powerful people in the global AI chip industry, they’re also family, writes Michelle Toh and Wayne Chang.

AWS launches EC2 capacity blocks for short-term GPU compute

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for machine learning (ML), enabling customers to reserve GPU capacity for short-duration ML projects.

CentML raises $27M

Toronto, Canada-based AI/ML optimization startup CentML has raised a $27 million seed funding round. The investment was led by Gradient Ventures.

Machina Labs raises $32M

Machina Labs has closed a Series B investment round of $32 million. The investment was co-led by NVentures, the venture capital subsidiary of Nvidia, and existing investor Innovation Endeavors.