Ai Chip

Axera launches AX8860 Edge AI chip series with 256 TOPS, up to 128 GB memory: Axera launched the AX8860 Edge AI chip series at CIIF 2026. The 6nm chips provide 256 TOPS and support up to 128 GB memory, with AXLink cascading and PCIe 5.0. The toolchain is vLLM/SGLang-friendly for on-site large-model inference.

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Nvidia commits $250M in accelerated computing to UK AI safety research over five years: Nvidia pledged $250 million worth of accelerated computing resources to Britain over five years to fund AI security and agentic safety research, Jensen Huang said. Reuters reported the US chipmaker made the commitment to support UK research.

Meta releases Muse Gadgets open-source firmware and Linux SDK: Meta has announced Muse Gadgets, offering open-source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to help users integrate its Muse AI system into hardware like the Raspberry Pi 5. The company also developed its own smart home device called the Muse Home Link.

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