Investing in Gimlet
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced an investment in Gimlet Labs, which it calls the first multi-silicon inference cloud designed to address the global shortage of AI compute power. The firm notes that five U.S. hypersc…
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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced an investment in Gimlet Labs, which it calls the first multi-silicon inference cloud designed to address the global shortage of AI compute power. The firm notes that five U.S. hypersc…
Developer ucsandman built declick, a tool that compiles MCP servers and other API sources into CLIs, reducing the context-window cost of tool schemas from 236,818 bytes to 58,309 bytes (4.1x smaller) across nine MCP serv…
Google Cloud TPU v6e benchmarks show Gemma 3 27B hits a performance wall past 64 concurrent users in generation tasks, plateauing at a 4.12x normalized throughput multiplier at 128 users, while Gemma 3 12B scales to 8.19…
Cadence announced that its PHY and controller IP for the PCI Express (PCIe) 6.0 specification, implemented in the TSMC N3 process, achieved first-pass success at the PCI-SIG compliance workshop in late July, marking the …
An Apple-commissioned report by Omdia, based on 1,500 conversations with enterprise tech leaders, finds that on-device AI infrastructure offers near-zero marginal cost after initial investment, and that 57% of enterprise…
Thailand has put 49 data center projects on hold due to resource strain, as reported by Bloomberg on September 4, 2026. The move reflects growing concerns about the environmental and infrastructural impact of data center…
China's Ulanqab region has become a major AI computing hub, with data center capacity jumping from 3.3 gigawatts in July 2025 to 12.5 gigawatts by June 2026, driven by a strategic bet that electricity, not chips, is the …
Experian plc has launched an Agent Operating System, a commercial agent-based platform bringing its risk, identity and decision-making capabilities into enterprise workflows, with ServiceNow Inc. as the first partner to …
Perplexity launched Hybrid Compute on Perplexity Computer, splitting one task across a cloud model for search and reasoning and a local model on Apple silicon Macs for private files, with an orchestrator deciding which m…
Shopify President Harley Finkelstein reported on the company's February 2026 earnings call that orders arriving through AI-powered search have grown 15 times since January 2025, routing through Google's Universal Commerc…
Nvidia confirmed its $12.9 billion acquisition of AI hosting platform Hugging Face, a deal that analyst Zeus Kerravala said hedges Nvidia against Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft building their own accelerators. The week also…
Nvidia has released a free beta tool, Nvidia Personal AI router (PAIR), that lets users build an AI inferencing cluster from disparate PCs on the same network, accessible from a single interface. The software connects de…
NVIDIA has released NeMo Switchyard, an open-source routing library that directs each AI request to the most cost-effective model, cutting expenses and latency. The tool, version 0.2.0, allows developers to configure rou…
Enterprise AI readiness is trailing industry hype as organizations struggle with infrastructure, costs, and application choices, according to David Linthicum, founder and lead researcher at Linthicum Research, who spoke …
A technical guide from Cast AI explains that quantization, the process of compressing LLM weights to lower-precision data types, is central to balancing throughput, memory, and inference costs, and clarifies that GGUF is…
At ILTACON 2026, iManage announced the October general availability of its next-generation platform, a new integration with Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise for Legal, and an expanded partnership with Thomson Reuters to …
Cloudflare announced that developers can now run Cursor Cloud Agents in Cloudflare Sandboxes, giving organizations more control over where AI coding agents operate. The integration allows companies to execute Cursor agen…
GroqCloud, OpenRouter, Cloudflare Workers AI, Mistral, and Google Gemini API offer free LLM API access in 2026, with GroqCloud providing model-specific daily limits, OpenRouter offering 50 requests per day and 20 per min…
Neon's benchmark of 42 AI models on a synthetic support-ticket workload found GPT-5 Nano was the cheapest at $0.947 per 100 tickets, while GPT-5.5 Pro was the most expensive at $8.34, and GPT-5.3 Codex had the highest ac…
Roman Shaposhnik, CTO and co-founder of AiNEKKO, led a discussion on chip hyper-specialization and Physical AI as the next frontier at the Cool Chips - Hot Takes event held Aug 25, 2026, in Palo Alto, organized by AiNEKK…