Tagged blackwell
6 entries
2026-08-25
Brief · 25 August 2026NVIDIA announced that its Vera Rubin NVL72 accelerator, paired with Blackwell GPUs, delivers up to 30× more work per watt on agentic AI workloads, and unveiled Spectrum‑X Ethernet to push 400 Gbps per lane for giga‑scale clusters. (source: NVIDIA dev blog)
2026-07-27
Brief · 27 July 2026NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos‑H‑Dreams, a Blackwell‑based accelerator that claims sub‑30 ms latency for high‑fidelity generative simulation of surgical scenes, targeting real‑time practice on virtual patients. [source](https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/cosmos-h-dreams)
2026-06-21
Brief · 21 June 2026Linux kernel 7.2 merge added the first Blackwell‑Next enablement flag, marking the earliest public kernel support for NVIDIA’s upcoming GPU generation.
2026-06-09
Brief · 9 June 2026NVIDIA added support for the new NVFP4 numeric format on Blackwell GPUs, letting JAX‑MaxText pipelines run up to 1.8× faster, and the Linux 7.2 kernel now includes ACPI CPPC v4 code contributed by an NVIDIA engineer, easing power‑management integration for Blackwell servers. [source]
2026-05-22
Brief · 22 May 2026Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year for access to Elon Musk’s data centers
2026-05-06
Brief · 6 May 2026Anthropic announced it is taking the entire compute capacity of SpaceX's Colossus 1 datacenter in Memphis — 300+ MW, 220,000+ NVIDIA GPUs — to lift rate limits across Claude Pro, Max, and the API. Two public rivals just signed the largest direct compute lease on record.