Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B Outperforms Competitors, Nvidia’s Liquid Cooling Breakthrough and xAI Raises $6 Billion: This Week in AI – Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN)

The week has been a whirlwind of activity in the AI ​​sector, with major players making significant progress. From Metaplatforms, Inc. META unveil an AI model that outperforms its competitors, to Nvidia Corp. NVDA redefine AI data centers, and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN Shifting focus in the AI ​​chip wars, the AI ​​landscape is rapidly evolving. Let’s move on to the main stories.

Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B outperforms AI models from Google, OpenAI and Amazon

Meta has launched Llama 3.3 70B, a new AI model that outperforms competitors like Google, OpenAI and Amazon in terms of performance. Announced Friday, the model offers the performance of Meta’s largest Llama model, the Llama 3.1 405B, but at a reduced cost. Ahmad Al-Dahle, Vice President of Generative AI at Meta, highlighted that Llama 3.3 70B leverages advanced post-training techniques for effective core performance improvement.

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Nvidia’s Liquid-Cooled Blackwell GPUs Are Revolutionizing AI Data Centers

Nvidia is transforming AI infrastructure with its Blackwell GPUs, driving a significant shift toward liquid cooling in data centers. Once the cooling issues are resolved, Nvidia plans to increase production of liquid-cooled GB200 server racks in the first quarter of 2025, marking a crucial moment for the AI ​​server ecosystem.

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Amazon focuses on AI chip war

Amazon has decided to stop development of its Inferentia AI chip and focus on the Trainium chip. The move is part of Amazon’s broader strategy to improve cost performance in training AI models. Since entering the AI ​​chip market in 2018, Amazon Web Services has offered Inferentia and Trainium chips to AI companies.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai hits back at Microsoft over AI

CEO of Alphabet Inc. Sundar Pichai rejected criticism of his company’s AI strategy while targeting Microsoft Corp. MSFT. During his appearance at the New York Times DealBook Summit, Pichai responded to criticism from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella suggesting a direct comparison between their companies’ AI models. Pichai noted that Microsoft relies on ChatGPT’s parent OpenAI technology for its models.

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Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion for the second time this year

Elon Musk-led artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI has revealed it has raised $6 billion, with nearly 97 investors participating in the round. xAI’s latest fundraising comes as the AI ​​startup seeks to expand the footprint of its Colossus supercomputer tenfold.

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