Tech Times

Qualcomm Closes $3.9 Billion Modular Deal: Meta Validates Full-Stack CUDA Challenge

Qualcomm confirmed a $3.92 billion all-stock deal to buy AI software startup Modular, paired with a Meta Platforms CPU ...

OpenAI unveils first custom AI inference chip, Jalapeño, with Broadcom — and its development was sped-up with OpenAI's own models

The companies attributed this speed to a deep software-hardware co-development process that actively used OpenAI’s own models ...

Upbound open-sources Modelplane to optimize inference clusters

Upbound Inc. today released Modelplane, a new open-source tool for managing artificial intelligence inference clusters. San Francisco-based Upbound is backed by $69 million from Alphabet Inc.’s GV ...
Tech Times

AI Inference and World Model Startups Pull $1.8B in Two Days as Foundation Models Commoditize

AI inference infrastructure investment pulled $1.8 billion in 48 hours as Baseten’s $1.5B round at a $13B valuation and ...
IEEE

Characterizing Cloud-Native LLM Inference at Bytedance and Exposing Optimization Challenges and Opportunities for Future AI Accelerators

Abstract: As a major provider of LLM inference services, ByteDance has continuously explored diverse accelerator options to meet the rapidly growing inference demands of various heterogeneous LLM ...
eLife

SqueakPose Studio: An end-to-end platform for pose estimation and real-time edge-AI deployment

This important work introduces an integrated open-source platform for behavioral acquisition and pose estimation that substantially improves the accessibility and speed of real-time animal tracking ...
GitHub

MCP server for Unreal Engine that uses Unreal Python Remote Execution

This server does not require installing a new UE plugin as it uses the built-in Python remote execution protocol. Adding new tools/features is much faster to develop ...