A developer reveals how to run cutting-edge AI locally using two budget tiers — a $2K dual RTX 3090 setup or a $40K four-GPU Blackwell system rivaling Claude Opus — with detailed hardware configs, PCIe optimization tricks, and power management tips to make local LLMs a viable reality.
A new open-source app called 'riddle' transforms the reMarkable Paper Pro tablet into a real-life version of Tom Riddle's enchanted diary from Harry Potter, using AI to read handwritten notes and respond with synthesized handwriting directly on the e-ink display in real time.
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to develop a custom AI chip, joining a growing industry push to reduce reliance on Nvidia as rival OpenAI also unveils its own custom processor built with Broadcom.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp reveals a new partnership with Nvidia and outlines the company's frontier AI strategy live on CNBC's 'Squawk Box,' signaling a major expansion in Palantir's artificial intelligence ambitions.
Z.ai launches ZCode, a self-hostable AI coding tool powered by a 744-billion-parameter open-source model, offering subscription plans starting at $16.20/month and API pricing up to 82% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8, positioning itself as a sovereign, kill-switch-free alternative to Cursor and GitHub Copilot amid growing enterprise concerns over U.S. export …
Apple Silicon is emerging as the dominant force in on-device AI, with frontier labs ditching the cloud in favor of Mac minis and Mac Studios to run powerful AI agents 24/7, thanks to Apple's Neural Engine, unified memory, and unmatched power efficiency driving a major shift toward local AI inference.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp unleashes a fiery attack on Big Tech AI firms, calling the industry 'effing insane' and accusing them of overcharging businesses and exploiting customer data, while Palantir shares surge 9% following his CNBC interview and a new Nvidia partnership announcement.
AI inference chip startup Etched surges to a $5 billion valuation after closing a $500 million funding round, backed by Peter Thiel, Geoffrey Hinton, and Fei-Fei Li, while securing $1 billion in contract orders as it takes direct aim at Nvidia's dominance in the booming AI chip market.
Moondream's new Photon inference engine eliminates GPU idle time through pipelined decoding, boosting vision-language model throughput by up to 35% on NVIDIA B200 hardware and achieving near-realtime inference at approximately 33ms.
Apple VP Paul Meade, who led Vision Pro and AI smart glasses development, is leaving to join OpenAI's rapidly expanding hardware team amid an internal leadership shake-up linked to John Ternus' expected rise to CEO.