AI tie-ups, electric plane lift-offs

STORY: From the latest manoeuvring in the global AI race… to the electric plane reaching for the skies.

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A tie-up between two of the highest-profile gamers in the global AI race is on the way in which.

Nvidia is to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI and provide it with data middle chips.

The deal offers chipmaker Nvidia a financial stake in the world’s most outstanding AI company.

The investment offers OpenAI the money and access it wants to buy superior chips that are key to sustaining its dominance.

But rivals of both firms could also be involved the partnership will undermine competitors.

Meta has launched its latest good glasses, and they’re its first consumer-ready spectacles with a constructed in show.

Dubbed the Meta Ray-Ban Display, they are going to go on sale later this month priced from $799.

Boss Mark Zuckerberg introduced the new gadget at the firm’s annual event for builders in California.

“The display is large enough to watch a video or read a thread of messages. It appears in one eye it’s slightly off center, so it doesn’t block your view and it disappears after a few seconds when it’s not in use so it doesn’t distract you.”

Huawei has outlined its long-term chip plans for the first time .

It’s said it will launch some of the world’s most powerful computing systems – underscoring China’s drive to wean itself off foreign semiconductor suppliers like Nvidia.

In an announcement that broke years of secrecy about its chips business, Huawei detailed timelines for its Ascend artificial intelligence chips and Kunpeng server chips.

Two Chinese companies — WeRide and Pony.ai — say they will partner with local firms to launch robotaxi services in Singapore.

The city-state is expanding into autonomous driving.

Ride-hailing operator Grab said it would also partner with WeRide to begin services next year.

Brazil’s Embraer could get certification of its electric aircraft in 2027.

Although the new president of the country’s aviation regulator told GWN he would like to hit that milestone a year earlier.

Embraer’s subsidiary Eve is among a number of corporations developing battery-powered plane that can take off and land vertically to ferry travellers on short metropolis journeys.