Large language models have a keen appetite for electricity. The energy used to train OpenAI’s gpt-4 model could have powered 50 American homes for a century. And as models get bigger, costs rise rapidly. By one estimate, today’s biggest models cost $100m to train; the next generation could cost $1bn, and the following one $10bn. … Read more
Indian stock market: The domestic equity market indices, Sensex and Nifty 50, are expected to open lower on Thursday following weakness in global markets. Asian markets traded lower, while the US stock market ended in the red overnight as investors watched out for Nvidia results for the second quarter. On Wednesday, the Indian stock market … Read more
New Delhi: If Bhavish Aggarwal, founder of now-listed Ola Electric, is known to dream big, his newest ambition is audacious by even his standards: to build “India’s first AI (artificial intelligence) chips” in four years. Such a plan would thrust Aggarwal, who is likened to Elon Musk for his public persona, into an industry with … Read more
Apple and Nvidia led a sell-off in tech stocks on Monday on US recession worries and Berkshire Hathaway’s stake sale in the iPhone maker. The magnificent seven – Alphabet, Amazon , Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia fell as much as 6.5%. The losses in these seven stocks were set to wipe out nearly … Read more
In 2023 Apple released the iPhone 15 Pro, powered by the a17 bionic chip, with 19bn transistors. The density of transistors has doubled 34 times over 56 years. That exponential progress, loosely referred to as Moore’s law, has been one of the engines of the computing revolution. As transistors became smaller they got cheaper (more … Read more
Mr Pichai is not alone. New Street Research, a firm of analysts, estimates that Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft will together splurge $104bn on building AI data centres this year. Add in spending by smaller tech firms and other industries and the total AI data-centre binge between 2023 and 2027 could reach $1.4trn. The scale … Read more
FedEx leaps after upbeat profit forecast * Nvidia falls, drags chip stocks * Rivian up on Volkswagen joint venture * Amazon crosses $2 trillion in market value By Ankika Biswas, Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Carolina Mandl June 26 – Major U.S. stock indexes closed with modest gains on Wednesday after a choppy trading session, with … Read more
When ChatGPT took everyone by storm in November 2022, it was OpenAI, the startup behind it, that seized the business world’s attention. But, as usual, big tech is back on the front foot. Nvidia, maker of accelerator chips that are at the core of generative artificial intelligence (AI), is now duelling with Microsoft, a tech … Read more
Nvidia share price rallied over 3% on Tuesday as the chip maker the world’s most valuable company, dethroning tech heavyweight Microsoft. Nvidia shares rose 3.5% to $135.58, lifting its market capitalization by over $110 billion to $3.335 trillion, just days after overtaking iPhone maker Apple to become the second most valuable company, Reuters reported. The … Read more
Last week, Nvidia briefly overtook Apple to become the second most-valuable company in the world at $3.01 trillion. Even as Nvidia shareholders and its chief executive rejoiced, analysts and watchers of the company claimed the future may not be so easy. Mint explains: What explains Nvidia’s rise to the top table? Nvidia’s rise to the … Read more