AI Hardware & Infrastructure
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Rivian’s Founder Raised $500M to Build Factory Robots — Not Humanoids. Mind Robotics Explained.
While the tech world obsesses over humanoid robots doing backflips, RJ Scaringe is making a different bet. The Rivian CEO just raised $500 million for Mind Robotics, a company that wants to build robots for the factory floor — not the stage. “Doing cartwheels does not create value in manufacturing,” Scaringe said bluntly, taking a… Continue reading
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Microsoft BitNet: 100B Parameters on a Single CPU, 0.4 GB of Memory, Zero GPUs
The GPU shortage isn’t going away. Cloud inference costs keep climbing. And most developers still can’t run anything bigger than a 7B model on their own hardware without serious compromises. Microsoft’s BitNet — currently sitting at #2 on GitHub Trending with 29.4K stars — proposes a radical fix: shrink every model weight down to three… Continue reading
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NVIDIA-Backed Nscale Raises $2 Billion — Europe’s Largest Series C Ever
A UK-based AI infrastructure startup just closed the biggest Series C in European history. Nscale, the company behind Stargate Norway and a massive Microsoft GPU deal, pulled in $2 billion at a $14.6 billion valuation. The investor list reads like a tech industry wishlist: NVIDIA, Dell, Lenovo, Nokia, Citadel, Jane Street, and Point72. And to… Continue reading
