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For years, Chinese billionaire He Xiaopeng has been pegged as an Elon Musk wannabe, and his electric vehicle company, XPeng, as a mere Tesla copycat. And until recently the company seemed laggardly, raising questions about whether it would survive.
All of that is changing quickly. In other words, XPeng has moved up a stair from the realm of mere novelty to unignorable player with intimidating products and shrewd commercial instincts. He may soon be a force that Silicon Valley and Detroit alike must reckon.
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Anthropic on Thursday said it plans to use up to 1 million Google Tensor processing units to power its artificial intelligence, implying the startup would spend tens of billions of dollars renting TPU servers. The announcement is a show of confidence in Google’s chip as an alternative to Nvidia’ ... Read more ›
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