Scaling AI for everyone

kept by eddie feb 28

OpenAI raises $110B at $730B valuation from SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Amazon to scale AI infrastructure and products.

OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand
OpenAI's $500 billion Stargate project has seven US sites under construction totaling over 9 GW, with 0.3 GW already operational in Abilene, Texas.
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OpenAI has effectively abandoned first-party Stargate data centers in favor of more flexible deals — company now prefers to lease compute and says Stargate is an umbrella term
OpenAI has abandoned building first-party Stargate data centers in favor of leasing compute from third parties like Oracle and Microsoft.
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A Deluge of A.I. Computing Power Is About to Come Online, Fueling Major Leaps - The New York Times
AI chip count will double roughly every nine months, reaching about 200 million H100‑equivalent units by 2028 as massive data‑center construction ramps up worldwide.
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Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
Anthropic doubles Claude Code rate limits and API capacity for Opus models, enabled by a new compute partnership with SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center.
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