#Hardware
Curated coverage on «Hardware»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.

TAPe achieves RF-DETR and YOLO level detection on COCO with under 100K parameters
TAPe authors claimed to achieve COCO detection at the level of strong RF-DETR and YOLO models, maintaining under 100 thousand parameters, 7-8 ms per frame, and…

NVIDIA opened free API access to 100+ AI models with OpenAI-compatible endpoints
NVIDIA began issuing free keys to access over 100 AI models: developers get OpenAI-compatible API, 40 requests per minute limit, and access without a credit card.

Why the brain is hundreds of millions of times more efficient than GPT-4 and where neuromorphic chips are heading
The author explores why the human brain consumes orders of magnitude less energy for cognitive tasks than GPT-4, and how neuromorphic chips are attempting to close…

South Korea Becomes ASML's Largest Market as AI Memory Demand Surges

Athena launches FabOrchestrator for MES automation in chip and electronics factories

Allbirds stock soars 582% after brand abandons sneakers for AI

OpenAI raised $122 billion at $852 billion valuation, and Khosla deems it justified

Nvidia Chief Calls for US-China Dialogue on AI Safety After Mythos
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that Anthropic's Mythos breakthrough reinforces the need for US-China dialogue on the safe use of increasingly powerful AI systems.

Anthropic Declines Investment at Valuation Over $800 Billion, While AI Chip Market Accelerates
Anthropic declined investor offers at valuations exceeding $800 billion, while Meta expands its work with Broadcom and ASML raises its sales forecast amid AI demand.

Amazon and Microsoft turn Aragon into a 90 billion dollar AI-datacenter hub

Amazon and Microsoft Turn Aragón Into an AI Hub, but Local Residents Sue Authorities

TSMC Raises 2026 Forecast, Confirming Sustained Demand for AI Chips

Elon Musk Accelerates Terafab: Chip Equipment Suppliers Urged to Speed Up

Habr showed how to train a mini-LLM in C# using ILGPU and integrated AMD graphics
Habr published a breakdown of how to build and train a tiny LLM in C# with ILGPU and OpenCL, export it to GGUF, and run it in LM Studio even on integrated AMD…

Allbirds Abandons Footwear, Rebrands as NewBird AI for GPU Cloud Services
Shoe manufacturer Allbirds is selling its footwear business for $39 million, rebranding as NewBird AI and betting on GPU capacity rentals for the artificial…









