Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing at an exponential rate, with a broad range of topics spanning from the latest CPUs, GPUs, ASICs and FPGAs that run modern AI workloads, along with the different types of AI usages, such as the different types of large language models (LLM) and how they are trained and then used for inference workloads. Here you'll find Tom's Hardware's leading coverage of all things AI.
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OpenAI's rocky GPT-5 launch is the beginning of an uphill battle for AI, as Meta announces another restructuring
By Jon Martindale published
Premium As the hype train slows down, the AI industry is thinking about where it's headed next

95% of generative AI implementations in enterprise fail, says MIT
By Jowi Morales published
A new study conducted by MIT purports to demonstrate that most generative AI implementations in business settings fail.

Arm hires Amazon's AI chip developer, ostensibly to help create its own processors — Rami Sinno returns to the company, boasts Trainium and Inferentia on resume
By Jon Martindale published
This is the latest move in Arm's chip designer hiring spree that's been ongoing for the past year.

SoftBank acquires Foxconn's Ohio facility to build Stargate AI servers
By Anton Shilov published
Foxconn has sold its Lordstown, Ohio, factory to SoftBank but will keep operating it as an AI server hub for the $500 billion Stargate project.

Fragmented ecosystems and limited supply: Why China cannot break free from Nvidia hardware for AI
By Anton Shilov published
Premium China's push for AI hardware self-reliance hits the roadblock despite U.S. government's restructions due to fragmented hardware and software ecosystems.

AI experts warn that China is miles ahead of the US in electricity generation
By Jowi Morales published
Experts say that China has no power supply issues, allowing it to build as many data centers as it wants without worrying about exceeding its grid's capacity.

U.S. AI boom is completely upending the electricity market
By Anton Shilov published
The rapid growth of AI data centers is driving up U.S. household power bills as utilities expand the grid to meet their massive, volatile electricity demand.

ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4
By Anton Shilov published
Estimates from the University of Rhode Island's AI lab suggest OpenAI's more capable GPT 5 could consume up to 45 GWh per day. But researchers may be wrong.

DeepSeek reportedly urged by Chinese authorities to train new model on Huawei hardware, met with multiple failures
By Anton Shilov published
DeepSeek’s bid to train R2 on Huawei’s Ascend chips failed due to technical limits, forcing a return to Nvidia GPUs and delaying the launch.
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