Google is launching AI Mode for its search platform, an interactive tool that functions much like a chatbot, allowing users to fine-tune queries with follow-up prompts. In the next few weeks, an AI Mode tab will appear in Google Search and in the Google app search bar. Following the introduction of AI Overviews last year, the company began experimenting with AI Mode early this year. “As we’ve rolled out AI Overviews, we’ve heard from power users who want an end-to-end AI Search experience,” explains Google in detailing the evolution of AI Mode. The new tool will also test various ad placements. Read more

Nvidia is rolling out DGX Cloud Lepton, a platform that connects AI developers with GPU access available through various cloud providers. Nvidia calls it “a compute marketplace” that offers tens of thousands of GPUs through a global network that features Nvidia Cloud Partners (NCPs). Among them: CoreWeave, Crusoe, Firmus, Foxconn, GMI Cloud, Lambda, Nebius, Nscale, Softbank Corp. and Yotta Data Services — offering Nvidia Blackwell and other architecture GPUs. Developers can tap into GPU compute capacity in specific regions for both on-demand and long-term computing, Nvidia says, adding that it expects leading cloud computing providers to eventually sign on. Read more

The “open agentic web” was a major focus at the Microsoft Build conference, with dozens of new AI tools and features aimed at helping developers create autonomous systems that can shoulder routine and repetitive duties for human taskmasters and even undertake things like independent research with minimal supervision. The company unveiled a new GitHub Copilot coding agent that “supercharges” the AI assistant, allowing it to undertake more complex tasks and collaborate with other agents. Copilot Tuning was introduced as a “low-code” customization tool for adding corporate data to AI models. In all, Microsoft made more than 50 news announcements. Read more

Nvidia has teamed up with Abu Dhabi investment firm MGX to establish what they’re predicting will be Europe’s largest AI data center complex. The partners have also reached out to French firms with a goal of creating a 1.4 gigawatts capacity campus near Paris. The announcement was made at the Choose France Summit in Versailles in a joint statement with investment firm Bpifrance SACA and regional AI startup Mistral AI. On a related note, Cisco chose France as the location for one of its Global AI Hubs, planting a flag for the development of energy-efficient, AI-ready infrastructure. Read more

Nvidia is joining forces with Foxconn to build Taiwan’s first supercomputer. Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics, will implement the system through its subsidiary Big Innovation Company, which specializes in advanced tech solutions for enterprise. The supercomputer will leverage 10,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, providing “orders-of-magnitude faster performance, compared with previous-generation systems,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in his Computex keynote. Huang also announced a new initiative that will let companies build semi-custom chips and talked-up desktop supercomputers in the works with Acer and Asus. Read more