Upbound Launches Modelplane: The Open Source Control Plane for AI Inference

AI inference company Groq has closed a $650 million funding round as it pivots its business following a landmark IP licensing agreement with Nvidia. The round was led by Disruptive, a Dallas-based late-stage investment firm whose founder Alex Davis also serves as Groq’s chairman, alongside Fort Lauderdale hedge fund Infinitum. The raise comes roughly six […]

OpenAI has just revealed a new "intelligence processor" chip for AI servers made in partnership with Broadcom. The chip, called Jalapeño, is designed to power current and future large language models, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Jalapeño is an ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit), meaning it's designed for a specific purpose: AI inference. With AI inference, models process a user's request to run an agent like Codex or offer a response from ChatGPT, while AI training involves a model consuming vast amounts of data to inform its responses. It comes just nine months after OpenAI revealed that it would team up with Br … Read the full story at The Verge.

Unless you’ve been living under an old woodpile in your backyard, you have certainly seen how agentic coding is rocking the software development world. Things are happening fast and furious, and keeping up is practically a full-time job.  The latest area that is catching the attention of developers is how agentic coding is affecting the open source community. The open source movement has been defending the rights of folks to use, change, and contribute to software for many years. And of course, agentic coding is starting to become part of that process. On the one hand, maintainers of open source projects rightfully are frustrated as they become overwhelmed with pull requests of dubious quality and usefulness being submitted by coding agents. On the other hand, as David Heinemeier Hansson notes, maintainers are starting to get a little snooty about accepting AI-written code, viewing it as somehow not worthy of being included. Some organizations have explicitly banned AI-generated submis

Baseten, an AI inference startup, is close to finalising a $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal, just five months after raising a $300 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation. The deal is reportedly co-led by Spark Capital, Sands Capital, Altimeter Capital, and Wellington Management, […]

Super Micro's edge AI expansion enhances real-time processing capabilities, crucial for sectors needing immediate, local AI inference. The post Super Micro Computer expands edge AI lineup with Intel-powered systems appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

OpenAI introduces Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative helping open-source maintainers find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities with AI and expert review.

The resurgence of CPUs in AI inference tasks could reshape the semiconductor landscape, challenging Nvidia's dominance and impacting market dynamics. The post Chipmakers renew performance tussle as CPUs challenge Nvidia’s dominance appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.