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AI Models

NVIDIA Confidential Computing Powers Apple Private Cloud Compute Expansion

NVIDIA announced that its GPUs with Confidential Computing are now used for confidential inference in Apple's Private Cloud Compute (PCC) as Apple expands PCC beyond its own data centers to Google Cloud. The integration, unveiled at Apple's WWDC 2026, uses NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to support server-side inference for Apple Foundation Models, built by Apple and Google using technologies behind the Gemini family of models. The hardware-based security layer ensures that no one, including system builders, can access user data during processing.

Jun 93 minNeura News

Industry

Google to Pay SpaceX $920M Monthly for GPU Compute

SpaceX has secured another major compute deal ahead of its IPO, this time with Google. The agreement, revealed in a regulatory filing, sees Google paying $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs and other components. The deal mirrors a similar arrangement between SpaceX and Anthropic announced in May.

Jun 53 minNeura News

Developer

Workshop to Train GPT Model from Scratch on Laptop

A GitHub project provides a hands-on workshop for building a full GPT training pipeline. Users write code for tokenization, transformer architecture, training loop, and text generation to train a 10 million parameter model on a laptop in under an hour. Designed for a single session, it uses character-level tokenization on Shakespeare data and supports Apple Silicon, NVIDIA GPUs, or CPU.

May 55 minNeura News

Product Launch

G7e Instances Launch on SageMaker AI for GenAI Inference

Amazon Web Services has released G7e instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs on Amazon SageMaker AI. These instances offer up to 96 GB of GDDR7 memory per GPU and support for large models like GPT-OSS-120B on a single node. They provide up to 2.3x better inference performance than G6e instances, with doubled GPU memory and higher networking speeds.

Apr 208 minNeura News

Industry

Allbirds Pivots to AI After $39M Shoe Sale

Allbirds, the shoe company once valued at $4 billion, sold its assets for $39 million and now plans to shift to artificial intelligence. An investor will provide $50 million to buy GPUs and rebrand the firm as NewBird AI. The stock jumped nearly 600 percent to $16.99 on the announcement day.

Apr 163 minNeura News