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At GTC Berlin, Nvidia added five cloud data blueprints, agent-packaged training recipes, Cosmos 3 Nano checkpoints and faster inference microservices to its Cosmos world-model platform. Customer examples are concrete, but key gains are projections, and synthetic data needs real-world validation.
Nvidia says power is now AI infrastructure’s biggest bottleneck, citing more than $300 billion in backlogged equipment and over 200 gigawatts in U.S. interconnection queues. GE Vernova, Hitachi Energy, Schneider Electric and Siemens Energy are aligning with its DSX platform.
Nvidia’s European retail roundup leads with Shopify: a post-trained Nemotron model behind a Sidekick subagent reportedly beat a frontier model on Shopify’s internal benchmark at 90% lower serving cost and seven times the speed. The figures are self-reported; the pattern matters.
Nvidia added StormScope EU to its open Earth-2 weather models, forecasting cloud conditions from EUMETSAT satellite data every 10 minutes. AXA, Vaisala Xweather, TotalEnergies, Space42 and the University of Manchester are adapting the models, mostly at the evaluation stage.
Nvidia and partners described European public-sector AI built on open models and locally controlled infrastructure, from the European Commission’s platform to Polish medical imaging and labor offices. Auditable, local AI suits public services; health triage and benefits work need firm human review.
Perplexity and NVIDIA found a way to make a model teach itself without the teacher cheating, and the payoff is training that may need far less compute.
A speech model smaller than a phone photo album holds its own against Whisper base in careful testing, but it also has a failure mode that should worry anyone shipping it.
NVIDIA's Python profiler makes GPU measurement almost effortless, which is exactly why its default settings deserve more attention than they get.
Uber is expanding ChatGPT Work, OpenAI’s agent inside ChatGPT Enterprise, from a 1,000-person pilot to more than 30,000 employees, connected to Drive, Gmail, Calendar and Slack. Training and approved integrations are in place; outcomes, security and entry-level work are the open questions.
Meta confirmed on its third-quarter call that it will create a class of non-voting stock, distributed as a dividend, for capital raising, pay and acquisitions. Revenue rose 26% to $64 billion while costs rose 68%; shareholders gain a currency, not a voice.
A Meta filing shows Mark Zuckerberg told directors in September he was weighing a move over Proposition 40, California’s proposed one-time billionaire tax. A board committee tied his sales of new non-voting shares to staying put, citing proximity to Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Vercel is going after the boring failure that kills cloud coding agents: a function dies mid-turn and the work, and the money spent on it, evaporates.