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Nvidia and Mistral AI have released a new small language model that purportedly features “state-of-the-art” accuracy in a tiny footprint. The new LM is known as theMistral-NemMo-Minitron 8B, a miniaturized version of NeMo 12B that has been pruned from 12 billion to 8 billion parameters. The new 8 billion-parameter small language model was shrunken down through two different AI optimization methods, said Bryan Catanzaro, VP of deep learning research at Nvidia,in a blog post....

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made himself available for media interviews in the wake of the publishing of itsrecord $44 billion revenuefinancials and the traditional analysts' call. Bloomberg has shared its on-air Q&A session with Huang, in which the Nvidia boss was questioned about the impact of U.S. policy on his company’s recent revenue. However, when specifically addressing President Trump’s tariffs and decision to rescind the AI Diffusion Rule, Huang couldn’t have been more extravagant with his personal praise....

Nvidia will host its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) next week, where the company is expected to give developers a sneak peek at its next-generation codenamedB100 GPU for AI and HPC applications, reportsReuters. Nvidia is not expected to start shipments of new products for datacenter and client PCs based on the upcomingBlackwell architecturefor some time. But Nvidia is to unlikely miss an opportunity to talk about it at its own GTC conference....

Nvidia’s budget-friendly RTX 5060 GPUs are rumored to hit shelves on May 19th, according toVideoCardz’s sources. This release window falls just a day beforeComputex, and a day after AMD’s RX 9060 XT series,allegedly. Nvidia is reportedly relaying the embargo timelines to AIB partners as we speak, which is likely the origin of this leak. Since embargoes are always subject to change, we should treat this leak with skepticism. Last week, Nvidiaunveiledthe RTX 5060 family of Blackwell GPUs, including the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB/16GB ($429/$379) and the RTX 5060 ($299), with the latter slated for an unspecified launch date next month....

Thestock surge Nvidia is enjoying, largely because of its dominance in AI, has created quite a few new millionaires among the company’s employees. Unfortunately, many of them cannot yet enjoy their newfound wealth and still work long days and in stressful conditions, according to arecent Bloomberg report. Nvidia’s stock price has risenmore than 3,775 percent since 2019, meaning employees who receive stock grants as compensation have quickly become millionaires. You’d be mistaken if you thought they’d be living lavish lifestyles and retiring early....

More than nine months after OpenWrt beganfinalizing its $100 open-source router, the consortium has finally released the OpenWrt One. According to theSoftware Freedom Conservancy(SFC), one of the groups working alongside OpenWrt, this wireless router “will never be locked and is forever unbrickable” as it was built-for and comes with the open-source OpenWrt firmware pre-installed. The group worked together to draft the specifications for this router, and then OpenWrt tapped Banana Pi for the device production....

Last year, we reported thatValve wasn’t allowing games using AI artto be listed on its Steam storefront. Fast-forward to today, and followingValve’s opening the floodgates on AI use in Steam games, we now know there are at least 1,000 AI-powered games on Steam so far. This statistic stems from an analysis by Ichiro Lambe, a 30-year game industry veteran, insider, and developer, on his siteTotally Human. By running a Python script and crawling the Steam Store for the now-required AI usage disclosure message, Lambe found 1,000 games listed relying on generative AI in some way....

At its latest investor day, Qualcomm hinted on the third generation of its Oryon CPU cores. According to German outletComputerBase.de(machine translated), it seems that the Oryon 2 will be skipping PCs, and will only be used in the Snapdragon 8 Elite chips. The successor to the Snapdragon X Plus and Elite chips will be powered by the Oryon 3 and is targeted to be launched around the time ofComputex2025, which coincides with theDell leak showing Qualcomm’s roadmap for its Arm-based CPUs....

One cool thing we like about theRaspberry Piis the sheer amount of resources available for integrating AI into your projects. Instead of using third party tools to relay AI tasks, you can actually host generative AI systems locally on the Raspberry Pi. Today’s project is a wonderful example of how you can use this type of setup to create a beautiful, decorative display. Maker and developer Dylan has created what he callsPaperPi AI—a digital e-ink picture frame that creates flower paintings using AI....

After years of silence in the eGPU space, Razer is back, but not quite with a bang. Thecompany has unveiled the Core X V2, its first Thunderbolt 5 external GPU enclosure, alongside a separate Thunderbolt 5 Dock. On paper, both look like futuristic upgrades to their respective categories. Razer’s last enclosure was the Core X Chroma, released six years ago, and it only had Thunderbolt 3 capabilities, so this upgrade was long overdue....

A GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card from Gainward has dropped below MSRP at a UK reseller, now retailing for £518.99 ($677), saving you around 10 pounds compared to Nvidia’s revised MSRP (viaKitGuru). And if you’re waiting for the apparent gotcha, there is none. UK and IE residents can snag this model fromOCUKas we speak. This sudden price drop could be part of a flash sale, so we shouldn’t take this isolated listing as indicative of the entire market....

AMD’s flagship Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 CPU was benchmarked in Geekbench 6 with potent results. Initially discovered byHXL on X, the Zen 5 CPU’s single-core and multi-core results were high enough to outperform most of Intel’s fastest mobile CPUs, featuring the same benchmark results as a desktopCore i5-13600K. The HX 375 produced a single-core result of 2,864 points and a multi-core result of 15,012 points on an HP OmniBook Ultra Laptop 14 paired with 32GB of DDR5 memory....

The problem with prebuilt gaming PCs is the price. Sometimes massive overheads are charged for constructing the PC or offering a one-stop shop for warranties and RMA services should the worst happen, some companies may offer extras such as custom water-cooling or overclocking which can help to justify the extra price, but more often than not these prebuilt gaming PCs sell well because of convenience, not because they’re cheaper than buying the parts and assembling it yourself....