AI
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Elon Musk’s feud with OpenAI has taken a new turn, with reports suggesting the billionaire is leading a consortium aiming to buy the ChatGPT maker for $97.4 billion. -
As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption accelerates globally, the demand for robust infrastructure has reached unprecedented levels. At ITW Asia’s keynote panel, “Scaling Infrastructure for AI Across Asia,” industry leaders delved into the unique challenges and opportunities associated with AI-driven growth across the region.
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The Iliad Group has unveiled a €3 billion war chest to invest in AI infrastructure, including new data centres and GPUs to power AI workloads.
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Mistral AI, Europe’s leading answer to OpenAI, unveiled plans to build its first AI cluster in France to further power its training efforts.
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Amazon just about scraped by projected earnings but investors still soured on the tech giant after a less-than-stellar performance from its cloud business.
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Global data centre capital expenditure will surpass $1 trillion according to new projections from Dell'Oro Group.
Forthcoming events
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SoftBank is reportedly in talks to increase its investment in OpenAI, potentially injecting up to $25 billion into the ChatGPT maker.
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Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, claimed the market reaction to DeepSeek was “woefully unjustified” and that open source research powered the Chinese startup's meteoric rise, not its hardware.
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Capacity explores the true costs of DeepSeek's AI model, the safety concerns it raises, and the impact of censorship on its global reception.
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NTT Data has unveiled Smart AI Agent, an AI-powered tool designed to autonomously perform complex tasks alongside existing workforces.
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Technology leaders have responded with admiration and intrigue following DeepSeek’s launch of its flagship language model, R1.
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DC01UK, planned to be the largest data centre in Europe, has received approval from the planning committee of Hertsmere Borough Council to proceed.
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Elon Musk is looking to double up the computing power of xAI with X (formerly Twitter), expanding the social media site’s Atlanta data centre as an extra training base as the startup continues to build out Grok.
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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has surged in popularity, climbing to the top of Apple’s App Store in the UK, US, and China, posing a significant challenge to Silicon Valley’s dominance.
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OpenAI has provided a glimpse into its first steps into AI agents with Operator, a tool capable of autonomously browsing the web to accomplish tasks.
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LG Electronics (LG) has solidified its position as a leader in robotics by acquiring a majority stake in Silicon Valley-based Bear Robotics, a pioneer in AI-powered autonomous service robots.
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Elon Musk has taken a swipe at OpenAI over its involvement in Project Stargate, claiming the ChatGPT maker “don’t actually have the money”.
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First, there was deep learning, which was quickly replaced by generative AI. Then foundational or to some, frontier AI became THE buzzword. Then multimodal AI. Now, it’s the turn of agentic AI.
Forthcoming events
Datacloud Asia 2025 co-located with ITW Asia
3 DECEMBER - 4 DECEMBER 2025 Singapore, Singapore
