Nscale to Acquire Anyscale, Maker of the Open-Source Ray Framework
GPU cloud provider Nscale has agreed to buy Anyscale, the startup behind the open-source Ray framework, in a deal reported at roughly $1.65 billion.
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Every AI News story tagged with both AI Compute and AI Data Centers — the two topics side by side, updated as new articles publish.
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How Much Energy and Water Does AI Really Use?
A single AI chat reply uses a fraction of a watt-hour, but billions of daily queries and the data centers behind them add up to a fast-growing power and water bill.
Read more →Meta to Start Producing In-House AI Chip 'Iris' in September
Meta plans to begin manufacturing its in-house "Iris" AI chip in September, aiming to double its data center computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027, an internal memo reviewed by Reuters shows.
Read more →Reflection AI Locks In $6.3B SpaceX Deal to Build Open Frontier Models
The Google DeepMind spinoff signed a three-year, $6.3 billion computing contract with SpaceX's Colossus data center, giving it the GPU scale needed to challenge closed AI giants with open-weight models.
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