Tagged blackwell

2026-09-18

Crusoe announced a $3.9 billion Series C round to build massive data centers and modular “AI factories,” expanding its compute‑as‑a‑service footprint. (TechCrunch)

2026-09-06

NVIDIA released a 13‑patch open‑source vGPU manager and VFIO driver for its Nova kernel graphics stack, extending Blackwell GPU virtualization to Linux. The patches landed on the mailing list Saturday.

2026-08-25

NVIDIA 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. (NVIDIA dev blog)

2026-07-27

NVIDIA 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.

2026-06-21

Linux 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

NVIDIA 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.

2026-05-22

Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year for access to Elon Musk’s data centers

2026-05-06

Anthropic 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.