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Microsoft plans multigigawatt Maia deployments from 2027

Microsoft says Maia 200 is serving production workloads and plans to scale its accelerator family to multigigawatt deployments from 2027. Maia 300 is scheduled for production deployment that year as Microsoft makes Maia its primary inference system for its products and services.

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OpenBMB #OpenModels #Multimodal #OnDeviceAI

OpenBMB releases MiniCPM-V 4.7 for on-device multimodal AI

OpenBMB released MiniCPM-V 4.7 in a 35B-A3B mixture-of-experts variant for image and video understanding. Its model card describes expert scheduling, quantization and speculative decoding for local inference, with deployment support across mobile and desktop platforms.

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Microsoft Research #Research #Education #Evaluation

Microsoft details StudentSim for evaluating AI tutors

Microsoft Research described StudentSim, which trains personalized learner simulators from public, de-identified records and evaluates responses across chess, English writing and mathematics. It provides feedback for developing AI tutors before human studies; it is a research system, not a classroom product or replacement for testing with real learners.

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HCLTech #Anthropic #EnterpriseAI #Partnerships

HCLTech and Anthropic partner on enterprise agent deployments

HCLTech announced a Global Premier Partnership with Anthropic and plans a dedicated business unit and center of excellence for enterprise Claude deployments. HCLSoftware will embed Claude and Claude Code in selected products, with governance and secure deployment central to the collaboration.

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PR Newswire #AmbientAI #Funding #Assistants

Mistlabs launches Ambi after raising $26 million

Mistlabs brought its Ambi ambient-AI system out of beta on Apple devices after $26 million in Pre-A funding led by Luminous Ventures and Huaqin. The company plans a standalone wearable and future agent-to-agent communication, extending its push toward assistants that reason in real time.

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Headline #Funding #HealthAI #Certification

Scarlet raises $50 million for AI-era certification

Headline announced that it is leading Scarlet’s $50 million Series B. Scarlet assesses regulated products and issues market-entry certifications, aiming to make certification better suited to rapidly evolving AI and medical software.

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Texas Instruments #DataCenters #Semiconductors #Reliability

Texas Instruments introduces faster AI data-center telemetry

Texas Instruments introduced the ADC34DSO75 at the Open Compute Project summit for continuous, event-based power monitoring at nanosecond resolution. The chip targets transient power-rail faults that can disrupt AI data centers; TI also introduced an 800V isolated hot-swap controller.

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Reuters #Amazon #Acquisitions #AIStartups

Amazon reportedly discusses a $7 billion Decart acquisition

Reuters relayed a Wall Street Journal report that Amazon is discussing an acquisition of AI startup Decart for about $7 billion, potentially adding to AI-sector consolidation. Reuters could not immediately verify the report; the talks do not establish a completed deal.

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Investing.com #Anthropic #Cloud #Compute

Report links Anthropic to IREN’s multiyear cloud contract

Investing.com cited The Information in reporting that Anthropic is the previously unnamed frontier AI customer behind IREN’s multiyear cloud agreement disclosed in August. The reported relationship would broaden Anthropic’s access to GPU capacity; it should not be treated as a newly confirmed contract announcement.

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