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My 2026 AI Predictions Have A Few Surprises

by Karl Freund | Dec 3, 2025 | In the News

OK, I haven’t done this in a while; no excuse other than laziness. But here are ten concrete, defensible predictions for AI in 2026, with a bias toward things that materially matter for infra, enterprises, and policy. 1. Agentic AI moves from demos to staffed “digital...

Google AI Shot Heard Globally; Another Shoe Is About To Drop

by Karl Freund | Nov 25, 2025 | In the News

The AI sphere is abuzz lately with news and rumors that the latest Google TPU, Ironwood, is powering the Gemini3 model, outpacing OpenAI on many metrics including intelligence and performance. Now, The Information, echoed by Bloomberg and CNBC, is reporting that...

AI Training: “I’m Not Dead Yet!”

by Karl Freund | Nov 12, 2025 | In the News

With so much focus on inference processing, it is easy to overlook the AI training market, which continues to drive gigawatts of AI computing capacity. The latest benchmarks show that the training of AI models, an immense investment in power and compute, continues to...

AI Startup Tsavorite Emerges With $100M In Orders, 10X Performance

by Karl Freund | Nov 10, 2025 | In the News

Another player has entered the AI semiconductor arena, and they’re not holding back. Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence, a Silicon Valley startup, has come onto the scene with bold performance claims, just a week before the SC25 event in St. Louis, Missouri. While their...

Nvidia GTC-DC Event Highlights AI, Quantum, And 6G Advances

by Karl Freund | Oct 28, 2025 | In the News

Nvidia GTC has become not only a key event for AI but has also branched out to Asia, Europe, and Washington, DC to keep developers and buyers up to date on the latest advances in high-performance computing technology. This year's DC event, which kicked off with a...

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IBM Launches Quantum System Two And A Roadmap To Quantum Advantage

by Karl Freund | December 4, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM announced its path to achieve over 100,000 qubits and over a billion circuit gates. When realized, IBM may create the world's first platform for universal computation in a quantum system. It sounds like Quantum Nirvana is finally in sight. Background Building a...

Intel’s New Chips Focus On AI

by Karl Freund | July 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Today, Intel launched and disclosed new technologies across its portfolio of processors, with special emphasis on enhanced AI capabilities. Unlike its many competitors, who either produce a CPU, a GPU, an FPGA or an AI-specific accelerator, Intel’s strategy is “all of...

Qualcomm Has Become A Leader In Automotive Automation

by Karl Freund | October 8, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Qualcomm's auto-related revenue jumped 87% year over year in the second quarter this year, well ahead of rivals Nvidia and Mobileye. Qualcomm estimated its automotive pipeline to be $45B earlier this year, double that of the previous year. Qualcomm's automotive...

Cerebras Announces Pay-As-You-Go AI Training On Cirrascale Cloud

by Karl Freund | December 13, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company claims it can train AI 8X faster than AWS at half the cost for large models.Cerebras is not your typical AI chip company. And thats a good thing. We already have a lot of knock-offs taking on NVIDIA, and they all seem to do a good job of knocking only...

If You Love AI, Do Not Miss NVIDIA GTC This Year!

by Karl Freund | March 10, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

I just got an email from NVIDIA touting this year’s GTC event (April 12-16) and have to share this with you, in case you haven’t already heard. The virtual graphics, AI, and HPC event will headline AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal), Geoffrey Hinton...

NVIDIA L40S: A Datacenter GPU For Omniverse And Graphics That Can Also Accelerate AI Training & Inference

by Karl Freund | August 30, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

I’m getting a lot of inquiries from investors about the potential for this new GPU and for good reasons; it is fast! NVIDIA announced a new passively-cooled GPU at SIGGRAPH, the PCIe-based L40S, and most of us analysts just considered this to be an upgrade to the...

Can Groq Really Take On Nvidia?

by Karl Freund | August 9, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Silicon Valley startup has just raised an astonishing $640M in additional funding, and is valued at $2.8B. Have they captured AI Lightning in a bottle? Groq has announced a $640M Series D round at a valuation of $2.8B, led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners....

Qualcomm Touts Eight AI “Firsts”

by Karl Freund | April 14, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AI research group at Qualcomm Technologies has pioneered innovations from on-device learning to wireless AI, and has ambitious plans for the next set of “firsts”. Whenever people take photos or speak to a digital assistant using a mobile phone, they often don’t...

Will Open AI’s o1 Reasoning Model Really Change The World?

by Karl Freund | December 10, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

OpenAI launched Strawberry — another name for its its 01 model — on Sept. 12, including the full function o1-preview and the more affordable o1-mini to demonstrate how AI can be greatly improved by breaking a query down into step-by-step reasoning. This...

Is Jensen Huang Nvidia’s Chief Revenue Destruction Officer?

by Karl Freund | March 21, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

At this year's GTC event in San Jose, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang held over 25,000 people in the palm of his hand, captivated by his vision of AI and how it could transform the world we live in. Some folks in the audience couldn't keep up and started fiddling with their...