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AMD has agreed to acquire AI research lab World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at $8.2 billion, with the transaction expected to close by year-end. Founder Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, while the World Labs team will continue research under AMD’s umbrella. The company, launched in 2024, debuted its Marble world-generation model in 2025.
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASIC, developed with Broadcom in about 16 months, is designed for fast inference at scale and has been benchmarked against leading competitors. Tests show it delivers roughly 1.5-to-1.9 times more AI work per watt and 1.7-to-3.6 times lower latency than Nvidia chips, and it outperforms the GB300 and comparable Nvidia, AMD and Google chips on several top open-source models.
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Meta has entered a multiyear agreement with AMD to purchase AI-focused chips, a deal valued at up to $100 billion. The arrangement includes a warrant for roughly 160 million AMD shares, which could give Meta an equity stake of about 10 percent in the company. The partnership is intended to expand Meta’s data-center capacity and diversify its AI hardware beyond Nvidia.
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Microsoft will keep purchasing AI chips from Nvidia and AMD, even after launching its own chip that outperforms Amazon and Google’s, but it still needs more units. China has approved DeepSeek to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, with regulatory conditions still being finalized. The approval enables DeepSeek to acquire the chips for its operations.
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