(Image source: TMTPost AGI Editor Lin Zhijia) AsianFin -- AI chip giant Nvidia announced late Sunday that it will manufacture its first AI supercomputer entirely in the United States, marking a major reshoring move amid growing geopolitical and trade tensions. The project will feature Nvidia’s Blackwell AI chip, which it says will become the most powerful AI chip ever produced domestically. Over the next four years, Nvidia will collaborate with TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Amkor, and SPIL to build up to $500 billion worth of AI infrastructure across the U.S., the company said. Blackwell chip production has already begun at TSMC’s Arizona facility. Nvidia will also break ground on its first U.S. factories, co-developing supercomputer production plants with Foxconn in Houston 

TMTPOST -- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced billions of dollar of new investment in data centers from an Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani, founder and chairman of a property developer based in Dubai. Credit：Xinhua News Agency Sajwani is pledging at least $20 billion over a very short period of time to build new data enters in the United States, Trump said at a news conference at his home Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach Florida.  The investment may go double, or even somewhat more than double, that amount of money, Trump added, stressing his commitment to expedite regulatory approvals for billion-dollar investments. The new data centers will be located in the Midwest and Sun Belt, according to Trump. He said the first phase of the project will be in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma

TMTPOST --  Japanese tech behemoth SoftBank Group Corp. Became the first to adopt Nvidia Corporation’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips to build supercomputer, highlighting Japan’s efforts to catch up with AI trends. Credit：Nvidia Nvidia announced Wednesday a series of partnerships with SoftBank designed to accelerate Japan’s sovereign AI initiatives and further its global technology leadership while also unlocking billions of dollars in AI revenue opportunities for telecommunications providers worldwide. In his keynote at Nvidia AI Summit Japan, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said that SoftBank is building Japan’s most powerful AI supercomputer using the Nvidia Blackwell platform and has plans to use the Nvidia Grace Blackwell platform for its next supercomputer.

TMTPost -- Dongfeng Motor Corporation Ltd., one of of the "Big Four" state-owned car manufacturers in China, is in pole position to build an auto plant in Italy, the latest sign that Chinese automakers are seeking ways to avoid possible additional tariffs in the Europe. Credit：Dongfeng Talks between Dongfeng and the Italian government about establishment of an auto facility are at an advanced stage, Reuters cited Italian sources close to the matter. The Rome government could join Dongfeng with a minority stake in the investment of the new plant, with aims to set up a hub for the whole of Europe, the sources said. The potential deal could also involve other key investors, including Italian companies from the components sector, they added. Dongfeng was weighing building a facility with annua

TMTPost -- China’s leading electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer BYD Co., Ltd., is working on strengthen its footprint in Europe despite the European Union’s higher tariffs on Chinese-made EVs. Credit：BYD BYD Chairman and CEO Wang Chuanfu and Turkey's Industry & Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacir on Monday signed an agreement deal, which invovles BYD’s investment of US$1 billion to build a factory in the country.  The plant, with a research and development center, is supposed to produce 150,000  new energy vehicles (NEVs) including  battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), annually. The plant is expected to begin production at the end of 2026 and create up to 5,000 jobs. It is anticipated to improve BYD’s  logistical efficiency

北美时间5月21日，2024年度微软Build开发者大会在美国西雅图拉开帷幕。OpenAI的CEO Sam Altman作为特邀嘉宾出席，与微软CTO Kevin Scott共同探讨了人工智能（AI）在当前技术发展中的重要性。Sam Altman表示：“现在可能是自移动互联网时代以来最大的，甚至可能更大的一次技术变革。” Sam Altman表示，开发者是技术发展的核心。过去一年半内，数百万人在OpenAI的平台上构建了令人惊叹的应用。GPT-4和最新的GPT-4o展示了技术被迅速且有意义地采纳的速度和广度。他从未见过一种技术能如此迅速地被广泛采用，人们用它来实现了许多前所未有的创意。 当被问及AI模型的未来发展，Sam表示未来几个月最重要的是模型会变得更聪明。从GPT-3到3.5再到4，每一次升级都显著提升了模型的智能和实用性。GPT-4o进一步降低了成本，提升了速度，并引入了新的模态，如语音模式。随着技术的发展，模型的整体智能水平将继续提升，这是开发者最值得期待的。 Sam给开发者提出了2条建议。第一，现在是创业和产品开发的最佳时机，就像互联网和移动互联网革命时期一样。巨大的机遇、创新的构建以及真正改变游戏规则的能力，往往出现在技术平台转移的时期。我们已经很久没有经历过这样的平台转移了，而现在，它确实正在发生。因此，把握这个特殊的时刻。这不是一个推迟计划或等待下一个机会的时期，而是一个行动的时刻。第二，AI虽然是一项新的赋能技术，但它并不是替代品，不能免除你打造卓越产品、公司或服务所需的辛勤劳动。你仍然需要付出努力。AI是一股新的推动力，但它并不会自动改变商业规则。你可以利用AI作为创新的工具，但在任何事业中，你都需要找到方法来创造持久的价值。 在讨论AI系统的安全部署时，Sam回顾了从模型研究到安全系统构建再到政策制定和监控的整个过程。尽管GPT-4已经被认为足够安全