Nvidia and Alibaba Invest Billions in AI Infrastructure and Models
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Nvidia pledges $100bn backing for OpenAI data centre in Ohio Chipmaker also invests $1.5bn into SB Energy, an energy company founded as part of SoftBank Group
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CNBCAs part of the Ohio deal, SB Energy and SoftBank will build power sources supporting 10 gigawatts of energy and invest at least $4.2 billion in grid infrastructure for the region. Nvidia will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy.
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On Monday, the Chinese tech giant launched an AI model, designed to run on consumer hardware like laptops — a new battleground for AI model developers — and opened the weights of its most powerful model as it looks to maintain its lead in open-source technology.
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ZeroHedgeChina has spent years pouring money and political capital into building a homegrown semiconductor industry. Yet when its AI companies need to train their most sophisticated models, many still turn to Nvidia, according to South China Morning Post.
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Alibaba's AI became the world's most downloaded model Alibaba's open-weight Qwen models have racked up more than 3 billion downloads in six months, blowing past Meta's 227 million and Google's 418 million, according to a new Hugging Face state-of-open-models report. The milestone caps a run of more than 460 open-sourced Qwen models and 300,000-plus derivatives, cementing Alibaba as the dominant force in open-source AI.
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CNBCAlibaba also said it released the weights — calculations and rules that determine how the AI works and behaves — of Qwen3.8 Max, its most powerful model, meaning it can be freely downloaded and run. But the data and methods used to train that model may not be revealed.
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01 CNBC Recent Securities and Exchange Commission guidance is underpinning the debt-fueled data center buildout to support artificial intelligence.
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02 ZeroHedge Apple has trained a custom large language model specifically for the Chinese market, utilizing technical support from Alibaba Group, according to Reuters.
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03 Fortune Washington tells allies to pick a side in the AI race The U.S. State Department is reportedly preparing a letter telling the 35 signatories of its AI Opportunity Statement—including allies like Japan, Australia, and South Korea—that they can't sign up for both Washington's Pax Silica coalition and Beijing's competing AI framework.
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04 Financial Times The next China shock will come from open-source AI Countries adopting Chinese models will also absorb Chinese standards and governance
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