Design

Amazon has unveiled TorchNeuron, a new development tool aimed at breaking Nvidia's dominance over PyTorch, the widely used AI development framework. The tool is designed to enable more developers to run their AI applications on alternative chips, including Amazon's own custom silicon.

Industry • TechCrunch AI

DeepSeek and Huawei are reportedly collaborating on future AI chip designs, with DeepSeek planning to start using Huawei's Ascend 950DT for pre-training as soon as the end of 2026, according to sources cited by The Information. This partnership could pose a growing challenge to Nvidia in the Chinese market.

Industry • Techmeme

Nvidia has launched new open models designed to run AI agents in enterprise data centers and on personal computers. This move is part of Nvidia's push into the trend of companies wanting to run their own open models and enable on-device, private AI agents.

Models • TechCrunch AI

ElevenLabs released two new speech-to-speech models designed for real-time AI conversations. The v1 Max variant reportedly scores 98.8 percent on the Big Bench Audio benchmark with a 0.57-second response time, which ElevenLabs says no faster model on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard has matched.

Models • The Decoder

Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip, designed to be the 'primary AI inference system' for its products and services. The Maia 300 aims to improve cost and efficiency for running AI workloads, reducing reliance on Nvidia GPUs.

Infrastructure • The Verge AI