AMD Pushes a Desktop Workstation Built to Run a Trillion-Parameter Model
The machines that train the largest AI models fill buildings, consume megawatts and cost more than most companies’ annual budgets. AMD’s newest product is designed to fit under a desk.…
OpenAI Sets a Higher API Price for GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI’s newest flagship model does more than its predecessor. It also costs more. The company said it is pricing GPT-6 Astra’s application-programming interface at $10 per million input tokens and…
Meta’s Muse Spark 1.3 Comes With a Price
For most of the artificial intelligence boom, Meta’s model strategy had the shape of a giveaway. The Llama family of open models was free to download and free to modify,…
Meta Tells Engineers AI Usage Won’t Decide Their Ratings
Meta Platforms has told its engineers that how much they use artificial intelligence will no longer determine how they are rated. In an internal memo this week updating expectations for…
Anthropic Cuts Cache-Read Prices 75% in New Model Release
A coding agent working through a project can resend the same files, instructions and conversation history to a model dozens of times in an hour. Each resend shows up on…
Anthropic and Nvidia-Backed Lambda Strike $35 Billion Cloud Deal
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing agreement with Lambda, the Nvidia-backed cloud services provider, according to people familiar with the transaction. The data center capacity at the center…
Strategy Resumes Buying, Adds 4,603 Bitcoin for $369.7 Million
The message went out on social media the day before: “We’re Back.” By Monday, Michael Saylor’s company had made it literal. Strategy, the software company turned bitcoin treasury, disclosed in…
Meta Quietly Becomes One of Microsoft’s Largest AI Customers
Meta Platforms Inc. has become one of Microsoft Corp.’s biggest AI customers, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to access artificial-intelligence models through Microsoft’s Azure cloud, according to…
AI Chip Startup Fractile in Talks at $6.5 Billion Valuation
Anthropic wants to buy about $250 million of chips from a London startup most people have never heard of. That order is now at the center of one of the…
Stripe to Buy AI Model Platform OpenRouter for About $7.5 Billion
A startup founded in 2023 that routes developers’ AI requests across hundreds of models is being absorbed into the payment company that already processes much of the internet’s commerce. Stripe…
