At its flagship event, CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2025, Cadence announced the launch of its groundbreaking Millennium M2000 Supercomputer. This new system, featuring NVIDIA Blackwell systems, is designed to provide AI-accelerated simulation at unprecedented speed and scale for applications spanning engineering and drug discovery. AI-Optimized for Unmatched Performance The Millennium M2000...
Read moreArtificial Intelligence has risen to the forefront of Canada's investment priority list, today competing for attention with cybersecurity. According to a recent survey by Amazon Web Services (AWS), over 85% of Canadian IT decision-makers are already testing generative AI. Yet this is not a fad; AI is now an essential...
The inaugural Acer Edu Summit Asia Pacific 2025, which was held from May 7 to 8 in Bangkok, gathered educators, policymakers, and technology visionaries from throughout the region to discuss the future-shaping power of artificial intelligence (AI) and digitalization in education. With the theme "Shaping Tomorrow: AI and Digital Technologies...
India generates nearly 20% of the world’s data, but accounts for just 3% of global datacentre capacity. To close this gap, NITI Aayog has launched a nationwide effort urging states to prioritise investments in AI-ready datacentre infrastructure. At a workshop held this week in Delhi, the think tank gathered senior...
Vietnam’s artificial intelligence sector witnessed a dramatic leap in investment, climbing from $10 million in 2023 to US$80 million in 2024. This eightfold increase comes at a time when total private capital investment in the country reached $2.3 billion across 141 deals, according to theVietnam Innovation and Private Investment Report...
AI Becomes a Top Investment Priority in Canada
Artificial Intelligence has risen to the forefront of Canada's investment priority list, today competing for attention with cybersecurity. According to a recent survey by Amazon Web Services (AWS), over 85% of Canadian IT decision-makers are already testing generative AI. Yet this is not a fad; AI is now an essential...
Vietnam’s AI Investment Soars Eightfold Amid Growing Tech Ambitions
Vietnam’s artificial intelligence sector witnessed a dramatic leap in investment, climbing from $10 million in 2023 to US$80 million in 2024. This eightfold increase comes at a time when total private capital investment in the country reached $2.3 billion across 141 deals, according to theVietnam Innovation and Private Investment Report...
Medmain Raises $3.3M to Expand Global Reach of AI-Powered Pathology Platform
Medmain Inc., a medtech startup based in Japan, has raised $3.3 million in fresh equity funding as part of its broader mission to modernize and globalize digital pathology. This round, which pushes the company’s total equity funding to $18 million, was led by One Capital, with participation from Niremia Collective...
7Learnings Secures €10 Million in Series B Funding
7Learnings, a retail optimization company powered by AI, has raised a successful Series B round of €10 million ($11 million) to fuel its predictive pricing and optimization offerings, with a specific emphasis on growing in North America. Acton Capital led the funding round with a solid reputation for backing ventures...
Brown University Develops Language-Driven AI for Robot Movement
Researchers at Brown University have introduced an AI model, MotionGlot, that allows robots and animated figures to move based on natural language commands. Inspired by how models like ChatGPT process text, this system converts user prompts such as “walk forward a few steps and take a right” into accurate motion...
Fastino Raises $17.5M to Scale Compact AI Models for Enterprise
While much of the AI world continues to pursue ever-larger models powered by vast GPU clusters, Fastino is charting a more streamlined path. The Palo Alto-based startup has created a new class of AI model architecture that is intentionally small, highly specialised, and hardware-efficient. These models are trained on consumer-grade...
ServiceNow and NVIDIA Reveal Apriel Nemotron 15B to Advance Enterprise AI
At its ‘Knowledge 2025’ conference in Las Vegas, ServiceNow, in partnership with NVIDIA, introduced Apriel Nemotron 15B—a new enterprise AI model designed to enhance reasoning capabilities across business environments. The unveiling took place before an audience of 5,000 attendees, including partners and customers from across industries. This model, developed to...
Mistral Medium 3 Surpasses Llama 4 Maverick in Performance and Cost-Efficiency
Mistral AI has introduced Mistral Medium 3, a new artificial intelligence model designed for enterprise-scale deployments. The company positions the model as a high-performing yet cost-efficient option, capable of matching or surpassing more expensive alternatives in core benchmarks. According to internal performance data, Medium 3 exceeds Meta’s Llama 4 Maverick...
India Moves to Fix AI Infrastructure Gap with National Datacentre Push
India generates nearly 20% of the world’s data, but accounts for just 3% of global datacentre capacity. To close this gap, NITI Aayog has launched a nationwide effort urging states to prioritise investments in AI-ready datacentre infrastructure. At a workshop held this week in Delhi, the think tank gathered senior...
Panmnesia Raises $30 Million to Develop Next-Generation AI Infrastructure
Panmnesia, a leader in AI infrastructure development, has announced that it is set to be funded with $30 million to work on an innovative project for revolutionizing the architecture of AI data centers. The program will be geared towards the design of chiplet-based modular accelerators intended to improve the performance...
Elea Launches Rio AI City, a 3.2GW Green Hub for AI and Cloud
Elea Data Centers has revealed the launch of Rio AI City, an inaugural project that is situated in the Olympic Park area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The facility, intended to host the flourishing AI and cloud computing industries, will be fueled by up to 3.2GW of energy capacity, a...
Rafay Systems Launches Serverless Inference for AI Applications
Rafay Systems, a leader in cloud-native and AI infrastructure orchestration, has officially launched its Serverless Inference offering, providing a token-metered API for running open-source, privately trained, or tuned large language models (LLMs). The offering enables NVIDIA Cloud Providers (NCPs) and GPU Clouds to offer multi-tenant, self-service consumption of AI applications...
Woodchuck Opens First AI-Driven Wood Waste-to-Energy Facility in Grand Rapids
Woodchuck, a next-generation AI-driven climate technology firm, officially opened its lead biomass processing plant in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The ceremony was attended by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, state and local officials, clean energy supporters, and business leaders. The innovative facility is the first of its type in the country to use...
Microsoft and Partners Accelerate Fusion Energy with AI at the Inaugural Fusion Summit
Microsoft Research hosted its first-ever Fusion Summit in March 2025, bringing together global leaders in AI and fusion energy research to explore how AI can help accelerate the quest for sustainable, clean fusion energy, according to a recent blog by the company. The event highlighted AI’s potential to enhance the...
Amazon Invests in AMD as Cloud Giants Race for AI Chips
Amazon has taken a notable step in diversifying its AI hardware supply. The company recently acquired 822,234 shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a purchase valued at around $84.4 million. The move follows AMD’s better-than-expected first-quarter earnings, with revenue hitting $7.44 billion, largely due to a 57% jump in its...
Google and Elementl Power Partner to Develop Advanced Nuclear Power Plants
Tech giant Google has entered into a partnership with nuclear developer Elementl Power to develop three advanced nuclear power plants in the United States, as reported by the Straits Times. This collaboration comes as technology companies, grappling with the rising energy demands of the generative AI revolution, explore new power...