AI NEWS: OpenAI just struck a $30B/year deal with Oracle for a massive data center.
Plus, more news from xAI, Alibaba, Google, Replit, Hedra, and Sapient Intelligence.
Here's everything you need to know:
Open is set to pay Oracle $30B/year for a massive 4.5GW Stargate data center
The move takes total Stargate capacity under development to 5+GW
CEO Sam Altman says the company will invest way more than the originally committed $500B as part of the project
xAI gave a glimpse of its Colossus 2 data center in Tennessee
The facility will be powered by 550K NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 GPUs, using various energy sources
Musk said the goal is to bring AI compute equivalent of 50M units of Nvidia’s H100 online in 5 years
Alibaba's Qwen team made headlines with three breakthrough releases this week:
—Qwen3 non-thinking update with SOTA performance among open models
—Qwen3-Coder, an agentic coding model that tops benchmarks
—Qwen Code open-source command-line coding tool
Google DeepMind won its first official gold-medal standard at International Math Olympiad
The company's advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think solved 5 out of 6 problem statements, scoring 35/42
Last year, it won silver
Replit dropped Queue, a feature to line up multiple tasks when the Replit Agent is at work
As each task completes, the Agent automatically moves to the next.
Users can also edit, reorder, prioritize tasks
Hedra just launched Live Avatars, a new streaming avatar model in partnership with LiveKit
It allows users to give a visual identity to their AI at just $0.05/min — 15x cheaper than existing solutions — with ultra-low sub-100ms latency
Sapient Intelligence released Hierarchical Reasoning Model
Trained on just 1K examples with no CoT or pre-training, the 27M parameter model handles complex reasoning tasks including extreme-soduko and maze puzzles
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