#GPU

#1 company contributing code to @vllm_project right now? @AMD: 502 commits to core vLLM in 90 days. 13% of all org contributions, almost 4x Nvidia. Also grateful to Red Hat, IBM, Embedded LLM & Inferact for building it with us. Open source wins when hardware has a choice.

Someone used Claude Opus 5.5 to make a 3D animation of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs (from server down to an atom). Took 1 hour and full animation “runs from single HTML file, directly in browser. No vid editor. No pre-rendered 3D sequence. Just browser-based experience.” Very cool.

Fentanyl Grade Compute: Why a GB300 Rack Will Out-Price Blow by Weight in 2030 A GB300 NVL72 weighs roughly 1,580 kg fully populated and recent purchase orders put it at $5M per rack. That is $3,165/kg. Strip out the 1.5 tons of busbar, manifold and coolant and the GPU packages alone are well into gold territory, but we're pricing the rack, because that's what you actually take delivery of. Where that sits on the illicit commodity curve today ($/kg): $2,400 Cannabis flower $3,165 GB300 NVL72 $3,500 Fentanyl $28,000 Cocaine $65,000 Heroin $138,000 Gold So today NVIDIA ships a product that is denser in value than weed, roughly fentanyl-grade, and still an order of magnitude short of cocaine. For now... GB200 NVL72 was $4M, GB300 is ~$5M, and Vera Rubin NVL72 is already quoted at up to $8.8M at essentially the same rack mass. Rack weight is constrained by the datacenter floor loading; rack price is constrained by nothing. That's ~1.75x $/kg per generation with HBM, CoWoS and power all supply-limited through the decade. Cocaine: Colombia's new president has pledged a hard-line security crackdown with $1B in US aid behind it Every prior crackdown has consolidated the industry into fewer, better-capitalized operators with better logistics and higher yields per hectare. Consolidation is deflationary. We model US wholesale drifting from ~$28k/kg toward ~$12k/kg by 2030 as the supply chain professionalizes. **Crossover: 2030.** Our extrapolated NVL72-class rack hits ~$17k/kg while wholesale cocaine falls to ~$12k/kg. At that point the rational cartel pivots to smuggling racks, except a rack has a fixed 500+ kW power draw, a 3,300 lb forklift requirement and an export-control regime that is actually enforced. Cocaine has none of these problems, which is why it will remain the superior product for anyone without a substation. Key risks to the thesis: US retail coke is still ~$60–200/g, i.e. $60k–200k/kg so the crossover only holds at wholesale. Retail compute (H100 hour on a neocloud) is also marked up, so we consider this an apples-to-apples wholesale comparison. Full model available to Coke Research subscribers.

Grok 4.7 is a strong combination of intelligence, speed & low cost

From 32 input images to real-time flight through @nvidia's Voyager headquarters. Trained on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Atlas uses these images as 3D spatial context to generate new views, letting you explore with pixel-perfect camera control. Take a look around.

Today, @Pinterest announced a new foundation for multimodal AI built with @nvidia to support a growing range of products that rely on both images and language. Learn more: https://newsroom.pinterest.com/news/newsroom-pinterest-x-nvidia/

SemiAnalysis says Google's TPU beats NVIDIA by 50% per dollar. Its own dashboard, each chip at its best, says NVIDIA by 9.7x. The trick: run Blackwell with its four biggest advantages off and call it apples to apples. Free isn't cheap enough anon https://x.com/i/article/2098431457442287617

《晚点 LatePost 》独家获悉，智谱 MaaS 开放平台注册用户（即 API 用户）近 700 万，相比七月初增长约 200 万，其中包括 2.3 万家企业客户，对标 Codex 的开发者产品 ZCode 上线 1 个月用户突破百万。 今年以来，智谱 ARR 增长 15 倍，根据我们了解，在 Kimi 和阿里新模型发布后，智谱 ARR 增速没有受影响。有投资人透露目前 ARR 来到 20 亿美元，但智谱官方已经否认，接近公司的人表示，实际数字应该更高。 若按 20 亿美元口径计算，注册用户当月平均在智谱开放平台花费约 160 元人民币。 7 月 21 日，市场传出智谱已建成规模 1 GW 的国产 AI 算力基础设施，据《晚点 LatePost》了解，有超过 5 万块国产算力芯片已经启用，以缓解日益增长的推理需求，7 月 31 日，智谱长期限售的 Coding Plan 在大幅涨价后已开放购买。