# ai compute (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ai compute. Page: Feed: --- ## [Bring the Fire: Play Games on GeForce NOW With New Firefox Browser Support](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-firefox/) _2026-08-20 · GeForce NOW Community · NVIDIA Newsroom_ It’s a new way into the cloud. GeForce NOW welcomes Firefox support to the cloud, opening up another way to jump into high-performance PC gaming straight from the browser, starting today. Whether on a school laptop or everyday PC, it’s now even easier to play supported PC games without downloading a dedicated app. Plus, discover \[…\] ## [Four Asian AI programs depend heavily on one river in Laos](https://www.infravantage.ai/p/four-asian-ai-programs-depend-heavily) _2026-08-19 · Matt Walker · InfraVantage AI_ Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and now Singapore will rely on Lao power transmitted by China Southern Power Grid ## [Modular: Mojo🔥 is now open source!](https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source) _2026-08-18 · Modular Blog_ Mojo🔥 is now open source! ## [Modular: Modular and Qualcomm: Same code, new silicon](https://www.modular.com/blog/modcon-qualcomm) _2026-08-18 · Modular Blog_ Modular and Qualcomm: Same code, new silicon ## [Modular: ModCon 2026: Open source, open cloud, open silicon](https://www.modular.com/blog/modcon-announcements) _2026-08-18 · Modular Blog_ ModCon 2026: Open source, open cloud, open silicon ## [Securing the Infrastructure of Intelligence](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/securing-the-infrastructure-of-intelligence/) _2026-08-17 · Jensen Huang · NVIDIA Newsroom_ AI factories are the defining infrastructure of the AI era—where compute transforms energy and data into intelligence that powers every business, industry and country. In the AI economy, compute is revenue. AI factories require a full stack of critical resources: advanced chips, packaging, memory, and networking – as well as land, power and shell. Just \[…\] ## [Securing the Infrastructure of Intelligence](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/securing-the-infrastructure-of-intelligence/) _2026-08-17 · Jensen Huang · News Releases - NVIDIA Newsroom_ AI factories are the defining infrastructure of the AI era—where compute transforms energy and data into intelligence that powers every business, industry and country. In the AI economy, compute is revenue. AI factories require a full stack of critical resources: advanced chips, packaging, memory, and networking – as well as land, power and shell. Just \[…\] ## [NVIDIA Guarantees SB Energy’s PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio to Exclusively Host NVIDIA AI Compute](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-guarantees-sb-energy-s-ports-pike-technology-campus-in-ohio-to-exclusively-host-nvidia-ai-compute) _2026-08-17 · NVIDIA Newsroom_ NVIDIA announced that it has secured land, power and shell (LPS) capacity through a partnership with SB Energy at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, to host NVIDIA compute... ## [Anthropic’s $6B Push to Lower AI Costs](https://chamath.substack.com/p/nvidia-and-wall-street-build-a-500b) _2026-08-16 · Chamath Palihapitiya · Chamath Palihapitiya_ A summary of the interesting content that I consumed this past week… ## [9 Big questions benchmarks can help answer](https://epochai.substack.com/p/9-big-questions-benchmarks-can-help) _2026-08-14 · Greg Burnham · Epoch AI_ A good benchmark asks more than just “can AI do this specific task?” ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/rIynZdtcv9Cy) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ugm-indosat-nvidia-ai-technology-center/) _2026-08-14 · NVIDIA Writers · NVIDIA Newsroom_ Indonesia is taking charge of its AI future. This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH), NVIDIA and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) launched the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) in Yogyakarta — the country’s first university-based AI technology center. Established under Indonesia’s AI Center of \[…\] ## [Deep Dive: The Next Trillion-Dollar Futures Market](https://chamath.substack.com/p/compute-financialization) _2026-08-14 · Chamath Palihapitiya_ AI capex hit $765B in 2026, passing oil and gas for the first time. The resource powering AI is getting its first futures contract. Here is what has to be true for it to work… ## [Will financing bottleneck AI compute? An Anthropic case study](https://epochai.substack.com/p/will-financing-bottleneck-ai-compute) _2026-08-13 · Campbell Hutcheson · Epoch AI_ Why Anthropic's buildout suggests that financing is unlikely to be the immediate blocker to frontier AI compute growth. ## [Class Is in Session: GeForce NOW Levels Up Linux, Chromebooks and More](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-linux-native-app/) _2026-08-13 · GeForce NOW Community · NVIDIA Newsroom_ GeForce NOW is giving cloud gaming an extra-credit upgrade just in time for back-to-school season. The native Linux app for GeForce NOW is officially out of beta. GeForce NOW is also delivering new cloud optimizations that make Frame Generation feel even more responsive while streaming. On top of that, Performance members will see higher frame \[…\] ## [NVIDIA CEO Tops Glassdoor’s 2026 List of Best CEOs](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-life-glassdoor-best-ceo-2026/) _2026-08-12 · Febe Punsalan · NVIDIA Newsroom_ NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor’s Best CEOs list for 2026. In the just-released ranking, recognition is earned directly from the people who know their leadership the best — employees. Huang topped the list, with 99% of employees approving of the job he does. “As AI and shifting expectations \[…\] ## [NVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-ai-factory-compute/) _2026-08-12 · Jensen Huang · NVIDIA Newsroom_ We announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital to support the buildout of AI infrastructure over time. This is a major milestone for NVIDIA and the AI industry. We have moved from an era in which companies \[…\] ## [Why Scaling AI Compute Performance Requires a New Power Architecture](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/800-vdc-power-architecture-ai-factory/) _2026-08-11 · Harry Petty · NVIDIA Newsroom_ Every new generation of accelerated computing demands more from the infrastructure underneath it — more compute performance, higher rack density and more efficient, scalable power distribution. The bottleneck isn’t just wattage. It’s how power gets from the grid to the GPU. In traditional power delivery, electricity travels from the grid as an alternating current (AC) \[…\] ## [NVIDIA and Local AI Community Fuel Open Source Models and Intelligent Agents](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-open-source-models-agents-nemotron/) _2026-08-11 · NVIDIA Writers · NVIDIA Newsroom_ The open source ecosystem is making it easier for AI enthusiasts and developers to build, customize and run increasingly capable agents locally. Throughout August, NVIDIA is celebrating the partners and open source communities moving local AI forward, along with the models, applications and tools emerging across the ecosystem. That includes NVIDIA’s latest open models, software \[…\] ## [NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard Deliver Faster, Smarter, More Efficient Agentic AI](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/) _2026-08-11 · Kari Briski · NVIDIA Newsroom_ As AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents, open models are serving market demands for full control over where AI runs and how it’s deployed and evolves. Today, NVIDIA is expanding its Nemotron 3 model family with Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, the highest-efficiency model in its class for long-running agentic AI workloads. This release follows Nemotron \[…\] ## [Modular: Modular 26.5: Mojo 1.0 is here!](https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here) _2026-08-11 · Modular Blog_ Modular 26.5: Mojo 1.0 is here! ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8Kc2v00KiYID) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [NVIDIA Partners With Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to Establish AI Compute Infrastructure Financing Platforms to Mobilize Over $500 Billion of Third-Party Capital](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-partners-with-apollo-blackrock-blackstone-brookfield-goldman-sachs-and-kkr-to-establish-ai-compute-infrastructure-financing-platforms-to-mobilize-over-500-billion-of-third-party-capital) _2026-08-10 · NVIDIA Newsroom_ NVIDIA today announced strategic partnerships to establish independent compute financing platforms with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize over $500 ... ## [A Bitcoin Miner Switches to AI for a $4.7 Billion Lease](https://chamath.substack.com/p/a-bitcoin-miner-switches-to-ai-for) _2026-08-09 · Chamath Palihapitiya · Chamath Palihapitiya_ A summary of the interesting content that I consumed this past week… ## [Sovereign AI gains steam in Europe; US-China conflicts persist in subsea, transceivers, drones and Salt Typhoon](https://www.infravantage.ai/p/sovereign-ai-gains-steam-in-europe) _2026-08-07 · Matt Walker · InfraVantage AI_ Regulators formalize AI oversight, earnings calls attach dollar figures, and the physical infrastructure layer draws new attention ## [How Two Companies Built a $71+ Billion Drug Class](https://chamath.substack.com/p/glp1) _2026-08-06 · Chamath Palihapitiya_ In 2025, two drugs earned more than double the combined revenue of OpenAI and Anthropic and reached under 2% of the people who qualify. This is a deep dive on the biology, the economics, and where... ## [The Leverage Inside Korea’s Memory Trade](https://chamath.substack.com/p/the-leverage-inside-koreas-memory) _2026-08-02 · Chamath Palihapitiya · Chamath Palihapitiya_ A summary of the interesting content that I consumed this past week… ## [The Epoch Brief - July 31, 2026](https://epochai.substack.com/p/the-epoch-brief-july-31-2026) _2026-08-01 · Elliot Stewart · Epoch AI_ Expanding FrontierMath: Open Problems, how "parallelizability" determines a technological singularity, the realities of AI energy use, and signs of AI uplift ## [Deep Dive: What Happens When Cars Drive Themselves](https://chamath.substack.com/p/autonomous-driving) _2026-07-31 · Chamath Palihapitiya_ Autonomous driving reached commercial scale in 2025. The robotaxi market alone is valued at over $11 trillion. But the bigger story is what happens to the industries built around human drivers… ## [Washington builds its 6G coalition, Europe beefs up military](https://www.infravantage.ai/p/washington-builds-its-6g-coalition) _2026-07-31 · Matt Walker · InfraVantage AI_ Twenty-four nations join the standards fight against China; meanwhile, UK and Germany upgrade defense communication networks, embracing standards and open source ## [Modular: Qualcomm Completes Acquisition of Modular](https://www.modular.com/blog/qualcomm-completes-acquisition-of-modular) _2026-07-29 · Modular Blog_ Qualcomm Completes Acquisition of Modular ## [Google’s biggest quarter ever](https://chamath.substack.com/p/distillation-is-a-red-herring) _2026-07-26 · Chamath Palihapitiya · Chamath Palihapitiya_ A summary of the interesting content that I consumed this past week… ## [Collect Open Source Legends (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WEXtgt3ELwxU) _2026-07-26 · **Sponsored**_ Open-licensed art, limited foil trading packs, and optional on-chain mints. ## [China opens the door, Washington arms itself](https://www.infravantage.ai/p/china-opens-the-door-washington-arms) _2026-07-24 · Matt Walker · InfraVantage AI_ WAICO, an $86 billion memory chip listing, and a humanoid robot ban frame a week of diverging AI strategies ## [OpenAI accidentally hacked Hugging Face — should we have seen it coming?](https://epochai.substack.com/p/openai-accidentally-hacked-hugging) _2026-07-23 · Alexander Barry · Epoch AI_ Expert assessments and cyber benchmarks led us to expect that frontier models were capable of executing this kind of cyberattack ## [Deep Dive: How Cyberwarfare Works](https://chamath.substack.com/p/cyberwarfare) _2026-07-22 · Chamath Palihapitiya_ Cyberwarfare lets a small number of operators threaten systems that took decades and billions to build. The next question is how that balance changes when AI can run most of an attack at... ## [China's Digital Silk Road is set to become an AI export platform](https://www.infravantage.ai/p/chinas-digital-silk-road-is-set-to) _2026-07-21 · Matt Walker · InfraVantage AI_ China is nearly caught up in the frontier model wars, and it already has distribution ## [Two questions every CEO should ask about AI](https://chamath.substack.com/p/two-questions-every-ceo-should-ask) _2026-07-19 · Chamath Palihapitiya · Chamath Palihapitiya_ A summary of the interesting content that I consumed this past week… ## [China stakes its claim to global AI governance at WAIC](https://www.infravantage.ai/p/china-stakes-its-claim-to-global) _2026-07-17 · Matt Walker · InfraVantage AI_ Xi's first keynote, a 29-nation cooperation body, and a US posture hardening in response; DeepSeek and Huawei make a big splash ## [A quick question](https://chamath.substack.com/p/a-quick-question) _2026-07-14 · Chamath Palihapitiya · Chamath Palihapitiya_ I want to further make our research and weekly publications even more useful to you. As a member of our community, could you take just 2 minutes to complete this survey... ## [Gulf funds diversify AI bets while NATO standardizes drone defense](https://www.infravantage.ai/p/gulf-funds-diversify-ai-bets-while) _2026-07-10 · Matt Walker · InfraVantage AI_ Abu Dhabi closes a historic $49 billion AI fund as NATO allies commit $40 billion to using AI to optimize airspace protection ## [The Epoch Brief - July 8, 2026](https://epochai.substack.com/p/the-epoch-brief-july-8-2026) _2026-07-08 · Elliot Stewart · Epoch AI_ A board game AI can't master, a cyber-disclosure spike after Claude Mythos, GPT-4's record run atop the ECI, and what's missing from AI futurism discourse ## [The missing half of AI futurism debates](https://epochai.substack.com/p/the-missing-half-of-ai-futurism-debates) _2026-07-07 · JS Denain · Epoch AI_ Why we should think a little harder about what it takes to build a Dyson Sphere ## [Europe places more AI bets while quantum deadlines tighten](https://www.infravantage.ai/p/europe-places-more-ai-bets-while) _2026-07-03 · Matt Walker · InfraVantage AI_ Redmond, Paris, and Ankara set deadlines driven by one threat: harvest now, decrypt later ## [The Epoch Brief - June 26, 2026](https://epochai.substack.com/p/the-epoch-brief-june-26-2026) _2026-06-26 · Elliot Stewart · Epoch AI_ Our new long-horizon coding benchmark, hyperscaler cash flows, tracking AI R&D automation, and Chinese lab strategies ## [Sovereign AI starts with connectivity](https://www.infravantage.ai/p/sovereign-ai-starts-with-connectivity) _2026-06-26 · Matt Walker · InfraVantage AI_ Governments pushed to control the physical layer this week, from MWC Shanghai to Santiago ## [What we learned from 1,604 Chinese AI job postings](https://epochai.substack.com/p/what-we-learned-from-1604-chinese) _2026-06-24 · Cheryl Wu · Epoch AI_ Inferring Chinese AI labs’ strategies from their job descriptions ## [Modular: Qualcomm to Acquire Modular](https://www.modular.com/blog/qualcomm-to-acquire-modular) _2026-06-24 · Modular Blog_ Qualcomm to Acquire Modular ## [America's AI ego failed to deliver victory in Iran; Europe doubles down on sovereign AI](https://www.infravantage.ai/p/americas-ai-ego-failed-to-deliver) _2026-06-19 · Matt Walker · InfraVantage AI_ Hegseth cuts NATO jets and drones, Trump backs down from Iran, and Eurosatory 2026 shows European defense firms already moving on ## [Modular: Modular 26.4: SOTA MoE Serving, Model Bringup via Agent Skills, Mojo 1.0 Beta 2 and More](https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-4-sota-moe-serving-model-bringup-via-agent-skills-mojo-beta-2-and-more) _2026-06-18 · Modular Blog_ Modular 26.4: SOTA MoE Serving, Model Bringup via Agent Skills, Mojo 1.0 Beta 2 and More ## [Toward an O\*NET for AI R&D](https://epochai.substack.com/p/toward-an-onet-for-ai-r-and-d) _2026-06-17 · JS Denain · Epoch AI_ Proposing a new way to track AI research automation ## [Modular: ModCon 2026: Modular’s Developer Conference](https://www.modular.com/blog/modcon-2026-modular-s-developer-conference) _2026-06-17 · Modular Blog_ ModCon 2026: Modular’s Developer Conference ## [The Epoch Brief - June 12, 2026](https://epochai.substack.com/p/the-epoch-brief-june-12-2026) _2026-06-12 · Elliot Stewart · Epoch AI_ Increased cyber vulnerability reports, Mythos' cyber hype, Fable 5's lead on FrontierMath v2, record-setting data centers, and what wealth distribution could look like after AGI