Nvidia, OpenAI, and Trump: the Vergecast 2025 year in review

When we look back on 2025, at least in tech, we’ll remember it mostly as a year about AI. We had a race between OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to build the best model for the most things. Nvidia became the most valuable company in the world, data centers started to spring up everywhere, and …
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Trump says Nvidia can sell more powerful AI chips to China

Nvidia has received White House approval to start exporting its H200 AI GPU chips to “approved customers” in China and other countries, according to President Donald Trump. In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump said the deal comes with “conditions that allow for continued strong national security,” and that the US will take a …
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Trump Says Nvidia Can Sell the H200 Chip to China

Donald Trump says he’s going to allow Nvidia to sell the H200 artificial intelligence chip to China, according to a new post from the president on Truth Social. The move will still bar Nvidia from selling its more advanced Blackwell chips to China, but it’s still considered a win for the tech company since the …
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SoftBank and Nvidia reportedly in talks to fund Skild AI at $14B, nearly tripling its value

SoftBank Group and Nvidia are in talks to lead an investment of over $1 billion at a $14 billion valuation in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational robotics model, Reuters reported. The nearly three-year-old startup was last valued at $4.7 billion in May when it raised $500 million in a round led by …
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Department of Commerce approves Nvidia H200 chip exports to China

Advanced Nvidia AI chips can head back to China after all. The Department of Commerce will allow Nvidia to ship H200 chips to China, as originally reported by Semafor, to approved customers in the country. The U.S. will take a 25% cut of these sales, CNBC reported. H200 chips are much more advanced than the …
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Nvidia Announces ‘You Vote, We Build’ Campaign With a Custom Build Gaming PC Giveaway for Its Fans, and More – IGN India

Nvidia Announces ‘You Vote, We Build’ Campaign With a Custom Build Gaming PC Giveaway for Its Fans, and More  IGN India Source link

Nvidia thinks AI can solve electrical grid problems caused by AI

Nvidia announced Thursday it’s partnering with EPRI, a power industry R&D organization, to use AI to solve problems facing the electrical grid. Perhaps ironically, the issues are largely caused by rising power demand from AI itself. The Open Power AI Consortium, which includes a number of electrical utilities and tech companies, says it will use what …
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NVIDIA and Mistral AI Bring 10x Faster Inference for the Mistral 3 Family on GB200 NVL72 GPU Systems

NVIDIA announced today a significant expansion of its strategic collaboration with Mistral AI. This partnership coincides with the release of the new Mistral 3 frontier open model family, marking a pivotal moment where hardware acceleration and open-source model architecture have converged to redefine performance benchmarks. This collaboration is a massive leap in inference speed: the …
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EY and NVIDIA to help companies test and deploy physical AI

AI is moving deeper into the physical world, and EY is laying out a more structured way for companies to work with robots, drones, and other smart devices. The organisation is introducing a physical AI platform built with NVIDIA tools, opening a new EY.ai Lab in Georgia, and adding new leadership to guide its work …
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