… Hasselmann sees in SambaNova’s partnership with General Compute parallels to CoreWeave’s relationship with Nvidia — and to the pairing of Groq’s chip-making with its former cloud offering. “They do need a healthy mix of customers that are going to put their chips in environments that are going to h… …
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… The site is also powered by 200 megawatts of modular gas turbines nearby, a tactic popularized by competitor xAI. Inside the tents, AI chips, likely worth billions of dollars, will go about their business. The tents have sprung up as Meta has struggled to release its AI models to developers. …
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… During a conversation Monday night with MSNBC’s Becky Quick, hosted by the Milken Institute — an economic policy think tank, the jovial Nvidia CEO said that AI was an industrial-scale generator of jobs, not the harbinger of mass unemployment that “AI doomers” have often accused it of being. …
… For comparison, Elon Musk said SpaceX expects its AI satellites produce up to 150 kw, and Starcloud expects to field larger 200 kw-rated spacecraft to run chips. Some companies are too impatient to wait for Starship. …
… Some of the data centers might be in space — at least by 2035, if things go according to plan. xAI will be making its own chips at the Terafab , which will take away some but not all of Nvidia's pricing power. …