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K-AI chips put to the test as global AI startups step up push into South Korea

South Korean neural processing unit makers are teaming up with domestic cloud companies to target the AI inference market, testing whether they can secure a foothold beyond Nvidia’s barriers. Samsung SDS launched an NPU-as-a-service offering on its Samsung Cloud Platform based on FuriosaAI’s second-generation chip. Rebellions is also partnering with KT Cloud and Gabia. Foreign AI startups are stepping up moves into Korea, including Genspark and China’s Kling AI.

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Mistral AI teams up with Microsoft to expand Azure infrastructure in Europe

Mistral AI has signed a contract worth several billion dollars with Microsoft to expand computing infrastructure in Europe. Under the deal, Microsoft Azure customers will soon be able to develop software using Mistral AI’s data centre in France. Microsoft secured additional data centre capacity for European AI customers, while Mistral Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 were added to the Azure Foundry model catalogue for use in managed Azure environments.

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AMD to ship first rack-scale AI system Helios by year-end; Microsoft joins as new customer

AMD will begin shipping its first rack-scale artificial intelligence system, Helios, to customers from late this year, CNBC reported on July 20. Microsoft is joining as a new customer and plans to use Helios in its data centres for frontier model inference, customer AI workloads and Azure AI services. AMD said Helios integrates GPUs, CPUs, networking and software, and will use MI400-series GPUs and EPYC CPUs.