Nvidia crushes the GPU market with a commanding 92% share in Q1 2025, gaining 8.5 percentage points as AMD plummets to just 8% and Intel completely disappears with 0% market share, driven by the successful RTX 50 series launch amid surging AI demand.
Medal founder Pim de Witte launches AI lab General Intuition with $133.7 million seed funding after rejecting a $500 million OpenAI acquisition offer, planning to use 2 billion annual gaming videos to develop AI models that navigate 3D environments and interact with the real world.
General Intuition secures $133.7 million in seed funding to develop AI agents with spatial-temporal reasoning by training foundation models on Medal's massive dataset of 2 billion gaming videos, aiming to create intelligent bots and GPS-free navigation systems for drones.
Nvidia open-sources Audio2Face, a groundbreaking AI tool that automatically generates realistic facial animations and lip movements for 3D avatars using only voice audio input, giving developers free access to create lifelike digital characters for games, apps, and livestreams.
In a groundbreaking demonstration of GPU acceleration, an ingenious implementation of Conway's Game of Life using CUDA and bitpacking achieves a staggering 120-fold speedup, unleashing lightning-fast simulations that redefine the boundaries of computational performance.
NVIDIA reports staggering $46.7 billion Q2 revenue, up 56% year-over-year, with Gaming revenue at $4.3 billion and Data Center revenue soaring, forecasting $54 billion for Q3 fiscal 2026 amid continued strong demand.
Microsoft introduces Copilot 3D, a free AI tool that transforms 2D images into 3D models for design, gaming, and 3D printing, excelling with objects but struggling with accurate human and animal modeling.
OpenAI's o3 AI system dominates the Kaggle AI chess tournament, defeating Grok 4 in the final, while Gemini 2.5 Pro secures third place, highlighting the rapid advancements and current boundaries of artificial intelligence in the game of chess.
Google unveils Genie 3, a groundbreaking AI model that generates interactive 3D video game worlds in real-time, allowing users to explore and interact with the generated environments for minutes, showcasing advancements in visual memory retention.
In a groundbreaking AI chess showdown, Google's Kaggle hosts a three-day tournament pitting leading AI models like OpenAI's o3, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok against each other in a single-elimination bracket format to evaluate their strategic planning, memory, reasoning, and 'theory of mind' capabilities.