Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday … Read more
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday … Read more
Micron Technology, the largest US maker of memory chips, jumped in late trading after giving a surprisingly strong revenue forecast for the current quarter, buoyed by demand for artificial intelligence (AI) hardware. Revenue for its financial third quarter will be US$6.4 billion to US$6.8 billion, Micron said in a statement on Wednesday. That compares with … Read more
Artificial-intelligence semiconductor powerhouse Nvidia on Monday unveiled a flagship AI chip, the Blackwell B200, saying it is up to 30 times speedier than its previous chip. Chief Executive Jensen Huang, kicking off the company’s annual developer conference, also launched a new set of software tools designed to help developers sell their artificial-intelligence models more easily to any … Read more
Nvidia, whose chips power artificial intelligence, has been sued by three US authors who said it used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo AI platform. Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O’Nan said their works were part of a data set of about 196,640 books that helped train NeMo to simulate ordinary … Read more
The Ascend 910B is believed to succeed the Ascend 910, which was released by Huawei in August 2019, three months after it was put on a trade blacklist by the US Commerce Department. The chip can compete with Nvidia’s A100 in terms of powering AI algorithms, according to Dylan Patel, chief analyst at San Francisco-based … Read more
Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang on Friday said that artificial general intelligence could – by some definitions – arrive in as little as five years. Huang, who heads the world’s leading maker of artificial intelligence chips used to create systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, was responding to a question at an economic forum held at Stanford University … Read more
Nations including India, Japan, France and Canada are talking about the importance of investing in “sovereign AI capabilities”, Huang said in an interview on Thursday with Bloomberg Television. “Their natural resource – data – should be refined and produced for their country. The recognition of sovereign AI capabilities is global”. At the time of the … Read more
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang Jen-hsun visited China for the first time in four years to attend company annual meetings, according to local media reports, as mainland Chinese market challenges mount for the US chip giant amid Washington’s moves to tighten export rules. The Taiwan-born American entrepreneur visited Nvidia’s offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen … Read more
