AI INFRASTRUCTURE
Eigen Labs Launches Project Darkbloom to Turn Idle Macs Into AI Compute Network
New research initiative from Eigen Labs aims to route AI inference through underused Apple Silicon machines, claiming 50% cost reduction versus major providers.
NVIDIA NVbandwidth Tool Gets Multi-Node Support for AI Infrastructure Testing
NVIDIA's NVbandwidth benchmarking tool now supports multi-node GPU clusters, enabling developers to measure bandwidth across NVLink connections at 397+ GB/s.
MiniMax M2.7 Brings 230B-Parameter AI Model to NVIDIA Infrastructure
MiniMax releases M2.7, a 230B-parameter mixture-of-experts model optimized for NVIDIA GPUs with up to 2.7x throughput gains on Blackwell hardware.
NVIDIA Open-Sources Slinky to Run Slurm GPU Workloads on Kubernetes
NVIDIA's Slinky project enables running Slurm clusters on Kubernetes, already deployed on 8,000+ GPU systems for large-scale AI training infrastructure.
Notion Slashes AI Embedding Costs 80% After Ditching Spark for Ray
Notion migrated from Spark on EMR to Ray, cutting embedding costs 80% and improving query latency 10x. Uber and Salesforce shared similar AI infrastructure wins.
NVIDIA Unveils Mission Control Software for Blackwell AI Supercomputers
NVIDIA's Mission Control bridges rack-scale GPU hardware with AI workload schedulers, enabling topology-aware job placement on GB200 and GB300 NVL72 systems.
Harvey AI Unveils Spectre Cloud Agent Platform for Enterprise Development
Legal AI startup Harvey reveals internal cloud agent platform Spectre, signaling infrastructure approach that could reshape enterprise AI deployment across industries.
Riot Platforms Sells $289M in Bitcoin as Mining Output Drops 4% in Q1
RIOT sold 3,778 BTC at $76,626 average while Q1 production fell to 1,473 coins. Hash rate jumped 26% but treasury shrinks 18% as miners pivot toward AI.
Ray 2.55 Adds Fault Tolerance for Large-Scale AI Model Deployments
Anyscale's Ray Serve LLM update enables DP group fault tolerance for vLLM WideEP deployments, reducing downtime risk for distributed AI inference systems.
Together AI Kernels Team Achieves 3.6x Performance Gains on NVIDIA Hardware
Together AI's kernel research team delivers major GPU optimization breakthroughs, cutting inference latency from 281ms to 77ms for enterprise AI deployments.
NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs Crush MLPerf Benchmarks with 2.7x Performance Gains
NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra GPUs set new MLPerf Inference records with 2.7x faster DeepSeek-R1 processing, hitting 2.5 million tokens per second across 288 GPUs.
Bitfarms Becomes Keel Infrastructure, Completes Delaware Move Amid Bitcoin Exit
Former Bitcoin miner Bitfarms officially rebrands as Keel Infrastructure, completing U.S. redomiciliation as it pivots to 2.2GW AI data center business.
Oracle Brings NVIDIA B300 GPUs and xAI Grok to Government Cloud Regions
Oracle expands AI infrastructure for U.S. government customers with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs and xAI Grok models in secure cloud regions.
Filecoin (FIL) Onchain Cloud Hits Mainnet With 49 TiB Already Stored
Filecoin (FIL) launches programmable cloud storage for AI agents with onchain proofs, automatic payments, and two-copy replication at $2.50/TiB monthly.
NVIDIA MIG Boosts AI Infrastructure ROI by 33% Over Time-Slicing
New NVIDIA benchmarks show Multi-Instance GPU partitioning achieves 1.00 req/s per GPU versus 0.76 for time-slicing in production AI workloads.