… MORE CONTEXT Alibaba Cloud hikes prices by up to 34%, blames hardware costs and AI demand Alibaba Cloud can’t deploy servers fast enough to satisfy demand for AI Alibaba reveals 82 percent GPU resource savings – but this is no DeepSeek moment Alibaba Cloud reveals its uptime and efficiency secrets … …
… One proposal that IBM is asking stock owners to vote against, is that there should be a report on AI bias. With such a big GenAI book of business, this is perhaps not surprising. ® ibm software
AI + ML Microsoft startup credits are the gift that keeps on billing unsuspecting users Perks fall short as third-party AI models rack up costs with minimal notification Complaints about Microsoft's startup credits and Azure AI Foundry keep mounting, with users reporting surprise credit card charge… …
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… But there is a blindspot when it comes to guessing how much inference power will be needed if the AI products that the company produces need to be scaled quickly to meet user demand. “The teams that are working on basically AI training today, they have the most immediately sort of clearly defined b… …
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… Advisors in Oracle negotiations said support levels are declining, while costs might increase as discounts disappear. …
… "So in a single building, we can create a lithography mask, make the chip, test the chip, make another mask, and have an incredibly fast recursive loop for improving the chip design." Intel does bring some much-needed expertise to the endeavor, though it's yet to disclose to what extent it's involv… …
… Now add to this the government's latest ambitions around AI and innovation. Rachel Reeves has made it clear that AI investment is central to the UK's growth strategy. …
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