Blackwell
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Blackwell is Nvidia's GPU architecture for AI and data center workloads, succeeded by the Vera Rubin chip announced at CES 2026.
NVIDIA and Google Cloud Collaborate to Advance Agentic and Physical AI
NVIDIA and Google Cloud cut agentic AI inference costs by 10x with new A5X GPU instances, pairing Vera Rubin compute with Gemini and Nemotron for enterprise deployment at scale.
The beginning of scarcity in AI
GPU scarcity is consolidating AI frontier access: Blackwell costs jumped 48% in two months ($2.75→$4.08/hr) and Anthropic restricted new models to ~40 organizations, forcing startups toward smaller models and on-premise alternatives.
Last Week in AI #331 - Nvidia announcements, Grok bikini prompts, RAISE Act
Nvidia reveals Vera Rubin GPU arriving in 2026 as the Blackwell successor, while US regulators advance the RAISE Act to govern AI development.