Nvidia announced a $26 billion investment over the next five years to create open-weight artificial‑intelligence models, marking a shift from pure chip manufacturing to a broader AI research role. The company unveiled Nemotron 3 Super, its most capable open‑weight model to date, featuring 128 billion parameters and claiming top performance on several benchmarks. Executives highlighted the strategic aim of fostering an ecosystem that leverages Nvidia’s hardware while offering publicly available model weights for startups and researchers. Industry observers see the move as a significant signal of Nvidia’s commitment to openness and a potential counterbalance to Chinese open‑source AI efforts. Read more →

Yann LeCun, the Turing Award‑winning AI researcher who left Meta after 12 years, announced a $1.03 billion seed round for his new venture, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI). The funding, the largest European seed round on record, was co‑led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital and Bezos Expeditions, with participation from Nvidia, Toyota, Samsung, Temasek and several high‑profile individuals. AMI, headquartered in Paris with plans for offices in New York, Montreal and Singapore, will focus on building "world models" using LeCun’s JEPA framework, aiming to create universal intelligent systems beyond large language models. Read more →