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French AI startup Mistral AI announced on Wednesday its full entry into the AI infrastructure sector, positioning itself as a strong response to American cloud giants from Europe. At the same time, the company also launched a new inference model that can rival the most advanced systems of OpenAI. This Paris-based company released Mistral Compute, an integrated AI infrastructure platform developed in collaboration with NVIDIA (Nvidia), designed to provide European enterprises and governments with alternative solutions to摆脱对

Recently, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) has fully embraced artificial intelligence technology and launched a new exploration achievement - CNKI AI. This move aims to empower knowledge services and advance scenario practices for question-and-answer enhanced retrieval and generative knowledge services. The CNKI AI platform relies on AI technology, integrating professional knowledge and deep thinking to provide reliable enhanced and controllable generative intelligent services. It comprehensively integrates an AI academic research assistant with AI-enhanced retrieval, making understanding more precise and comprehensive, answers more professional and in-depth, and is committed to building an intelligent research, scientific innovation framework in the era of artificial intelligence.

Recently, SoftBank and Intel have jointly developed a new AI-specific memory chip aimed at significantly reducing power consumption to provide more efficient support for Japan's AI infrastructure. According to Nikkei Asia, the goal of their cooperation is to design a new type of stacked DRAM chip. The wiring method of this chip will be different from the popular High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on the market, expected to reduce power consumption by about 50%. Image source note: The image was generated by AI, and the image rights service provider is Midjourney.

Microsoft has announced an investment of $400 million to enhance its cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Switzerland. This investment was disclosed during a meeting between Swiss Economics Minister Guy Parmelin and Microsoft Vice Chairman Brad Smith, marking Microsoft's ongoing expansion in the fields of AI and cloud services. Microsoft currently has a business team of around 1,000 employees in Switzerland, and the new funds will mainly be used for expanding and upgrading data centers near Geneva and Zurich. This initiative aims to meet the growing demand for cloud computing and AI services in the Swiss market.

According to a new analysis, the power consumption of artificial intelligence is expected to reach nearly half of the total electricity consumption of global data centers by the end of 2025, meaning AI energy consumption will soon surpass bitcoin mining. The analysis was conducted by Alex de Vries-Gao, a Ph.D. student at the Environmental Institute of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has previously tracked the power consumption and environmental impact of cryptocurrencies and published related data on his website Digiconomist. Currently, AI has already accounted for a significant portion of data center energy usage.

Amidst the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, a significant strategic deployment concerning the future AI infrastructure is quietly unfolding. Sources reveal the UK is emerging as a prime contender to host a new overseas AI infrastructure project jointly developed by OpenAI and SoftBank, a development that has captured significant attention within the global tech community. This massive data center initiative, dubbed Stargate, boasts a staggering $500 billion investment, representing a colossal undertaking in the history of AI infrastructure. Although the project will initially be entirely based in the US,

Nvidia recently announced plans to establish over one million square feet of manufacturing space in Arizona and Texas for the production and testing of AI chips. This represents a significant move by Nvidia to bring some of its manufacturing back to the United States. Nvidia's Blackwell chip is already in production at TSMC's Arizona facility. Additionally, Nvidia is establishing "supercomputer" manufacturing plants in Texas, partnering with Foxconn in Houston and Wistron in Dallas. In Arizona, Nvidia is collaborating with Amkor and others.

At the 2025 SenseTime Technology Exchange Day in Beijing, SenseTime officially announced a comprehensive upgrade to its SenseCore 2.0 large-scale AI infrastructure. As a leader in AI infrastructure, SenseCore 2.0 aims to provide businesses with agile, flexible, and reliable full-stack AI infrastructure services, driving the efficient implementation and large-scale application of large-scale models at an optimal price-performance ratio.

PJM, the largest electricity grid operator in the United States, recently announced a partnership with Google and its subsidiary Tapestry to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to transform how it manages its power system. This collaboration is expected to accelerate the integration of new power sources and address challenges such as delays in approving renewable energy projects and risks of power shortages. PJM noted in a press release that the project will mark the first use of AI to manage grid interconnection requests. Tapestry

According to AIbase, Google's parent company Alphabet has reaffirmed its $75 billion capital expenditure plan for 2025 in recent earnings calls and public statements. This underscores Google's continued commitment to infrastructure development, particularly in maintaining its leadership position in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The massive investment focuses on AI computing power. As a global tech giant, Google's capital expenditure plans are closely watched by the industry. AIbase analysis indicates that the reiterated $75 billion...

Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, recently reaffirmed its capital expenditure plan of approximately $75 billion for 2023. This investment aims to expand data centers and acquire necessary chips and servers to support core business enhancements and the development of artificial intelligence (AI) services. Sundar Pichai, Alphabet's CEO, detailed the plan at Google Cloud's annual conference. Image note: Image generated by AI, image licensing service Mi.

SenseTime announced that its 2025 SenseTime Technology Exchange Day will be held on April 10th at 2 PM. SenseTime's SenseCore AI infrastructure is set for a major upgrade, promising exponential growth in its technological capabilities. This upgrade will significantly enhance its capabilities, particularly in AI infrastructure, embodied AI research and development, and the application of industry-specific large models. Since its launch in 2021, SenseCore has successfully integrated nationwide resources as a new type of AI infrastructure.

Oxford-based startup Lumai, a key player in AI infrastructure, has announced securing over $10 million in funding. The round was led by deep tech investor Constructor Capital, with participation from IP Group, Ventures, Journey Ventures, LIFTT, Qubits Ventures, State Farm Ventures, and TIS.