NVIDIA and Google Cloud Expand AI Hypercomputer Platform at Next 2026 by Harold Fritts on April 24, 2026 AI ◇ Enterprise NVIDIA and Google Cloud used Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas to outline a new phase of their long-standing engineering partnership, introducing updates to the Google Cloud AI Hype… …
… Dell also said new validated solutions for agentic AI with Mistral, computer vision, immersive AI, and code assistants will be available through its automation platform catalog. Mistral AI plays a dual role in these announcements. …
… SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA is expected later this year. Digital Sovereignty and Resilience The product launch was accompanied by new SUSE research on digital sovereignty and digital resilience. …
… OpenAI’s gpt-oss release made the throughput uplift obvious, and frontier models like Kimi K2.6 are being natively quantization-aware-trained in INT4 from the start, rather than quantized after the fact. …
… Newer FP8-native checkpoints require requantization. If a model ships natively in MXFP4, as the popular GPT-OSS models do, you are looking at a conversion-and-recompile pipeline rather than dropping the weights in. …
… The new model won a COMPUTEX Best Choice award and is expected to be available on GitHub and Hugging Face this summer. DRIVE Hyperion If Alpamayo is the brain, DRIVE Hyperion is the car it runs in. …
How Metrum AI and Oregon State University Are Building the New Standard for Academic Assessment by Brian Beeler on April 23, 2026 AI ◇ Enterprise When we published our story on Oregon State University’s plankton imaging research last November, the headline was the science: AI-accelerated infrastruc… …
… Developed with AI hardware leaders, it optimizes the use of local AI accelerators for more reliable and efficient performance assessments. The results shown below were tested using TensorRT on NVIDIA models and ONNX on AMD models. …
Google Announces TPU v8t Sunfish and TPU v8i Zebrafish by Divyansh Jain on May 1, 2026 AI ◇ Enterprise At Google Cloud Next, Google announced its next-generation AI accelerators: the TPU v8t “Sunfish” for training and the TPU v8i “Zebrafish” for inference, along with its new Virgo data center fabri… …