The AI Network Is The Computer, Says Nvidia Nvidia just reclaimed its title as the world’s most valuable company. Whether it retains this top position and for how long depends on its success in defining and developing a worldwide network of AI processing units. Nvidia is pursuing a vision of a future where “part of the application runs in the data center, another part in a data center at the edge, and another part in an autonomous machine roaming around the world.” This is how Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s co-founder and CEO, described the future of computer applications in a conversation with Bob Metcalfe, inventor of the Ethernet. Huang and Metcalfe are prime examples of the remarkable marriage of engineering ingenuity and marketing creativity that has made many American entrepreneurs successful. Already five years ago, Huang saw the data center as “a composable disaggregated infrastructure,” where the critical path is the interaction of one “computing node” with another “computing node” ...
Ambani, Adani Partner to Use Each Other’s Fuel Network Billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani have joined hands to sell transportation fuels using their respective groups’ retail stations across India. Reliance Industries ’s Jio-bp venture will set up gasoline and diesel dispensers at CNG retail outlets of Adani Total Gas Ltd. , according to a joint statement on Wednesday. Similarly, the Adani group and TotalEnergies JV will put up CNG dispensing units at Jio-bp’s fuel pumps. The agreement will cover both groups’ existing as well as future outlets. This is the second business collaboration between the billionaires’ groups, after Reliance bought a 26% stake in a 500 MW power project of Adani. The partnership may intensify competition in India’s fuel retailing space dominated by the state-owned companies, which still account for about 90% of the 97,000 retail gasoline and diesel outlets in the country. “This partnership will enable us to leverage each other’s infrastructure, thus e...