PALO ALTO, CA. – November 6, 2025 – Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) company Inception today announced it has raised $50 million in funding. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Mayfield, Innovation Endeavors, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), M12 (Microsoft’s venture capital fund), Snowflake Ventures, and Databricks Investment. Today’s LLMs are painfully […]
IBM AI Development Environment Combining with Anthropic Claude LLM’s
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Anthropic today announced a partnership for development of enterprise-ready AI by combining Anthropic’s Claude family of large language models into IBM’s software portfolio. The companies said ….
HPC News Bytes 20250929: ‘World Models’ Next Big AI Thing?, ‘Central Park-Sized’ Data Centers, Silicon Cooling Advancement, How to Tame a 6K+ Qubit Array
Good late-September morning to you! The HPC-AI world last week barreled ahead at breakneck ….
HPC News Bytes 20250818: US to Invest in Intel?; DeepSeek Training Trouble; RISC-V GPU Startup Seeks Funds; NSF-NVIDIA Partnerhip
A good August morning to you! It was a geopolitically-weighted week in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (8:29) overview of recent developments, including: US government to invest in Intel … ?
Multiverse Computing Raises $215M for LLM Compression
Multiverse Computing has developed CompactifAI, a compression technology capable of reducing the size of LLMs (Large Language Models) by up to 95 percent while maintaining model performance, according to the company ….
Multiverse Computing Raises $215M for LLM Compression
Multiverse Computing has developed CompactifAI, a compression technology capable of reducing the size of LLMs (Large Language Models) by up to 95 percent while maintaining model performance, according to the company.
Code Conversion, Reasoning, Visualization and Other LLMs for Science at Argonne
Large language models (LLMs) applications range from text processing to predicting virus variants. As the datasets on which LLM models are trained become increasingly massive — including trillions of parameters ….
Report: $15B OpenAI Data Center in Texas Will House up to 400,000 Blackwells
Amid reports of hundreds of billions in AI data center investments in the Middle East, development of AI factories in the U.S. continues apace. The Wall Street Journal reported today that OpenAI has secured ….
SambaNova Reports Fastest DeepSeek-R1 671B with High Efficiency
Palo Alto, CA – Generative AI company SambaNova announced last week that DeepSeek-R1 671B is running today on SambaNova Cloud at 198 tokens per second (t/s), “achieving speeds and efficiency that no other platform can match,” the company said. DeepSeek-R1 has reduced AI training costs by 10X, but its widespread adoption has been hindered by […]
Massachusetts Launches Flagship AI Models Innovation Challenge, $2M in Funding
The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s (MassTech) Innovation Institute announced the launch of the Massachusetts (MA) AI Models Innovation Challenge, a flagship initiative under the newly established Massachusetts AI (Artificial Intelligence) Hub.













