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1. Mistral Debuts “Le Chonk”: Open-Weight Large 4 in Public Preview, Weights Drop Oct 27

   

   Why it matters: It was trained on about 4,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral's own European data cente…

   Stories·Oct 6

2. White House Announces $2.4B in AI-for-Science Tool and Compute Credit Pledges From 11 Companies

   

   …er 5 years), AMD ($500M), OpenAI ($200M), Anthropic and Google ($150M each) pledged $2.4 billion in "super-int…

   Stories·Oct 9

3. Microsoft × NVIDIA Start Selling Surface Laptop Ultra: Runs 120B Models Locally, Top Config ~$7,000

   

   …s reached consumer silicon, claimed to run 120-billion-parameter models locally; the entry S2 has only 24GB of…

   Stories·Oct 8

4. Lambda Seeks $4B in Final Pre-IPO Round at $14.5B Valuation: $35B of Its $50B Backlog Is One Customer

   

   …unch followed): Nvidia-backed AI compute cloud Lambda is raising up to $4B at a $14.5B pre-money valuation, le…

   Stories·Oct 7