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Nvidia and xAI are joining forces with BlackRock, Microsoft, and Abu Dhabi to create a massive AI infrastructure fund. The initiative aims to raise up to $100 billion through investments and debt financing to build new data centers and energy projects. Under the arrangement, Elon Musk's xAI and Nvidia will become equal partners alongside Microsoft and the Abu Dhabi-backed MGX Fund. The move follows January's announcement of "Stargate," a similar initiative from SoftBank and OpenAI. That project started at $100 billion with plans to expand to $500 billion by 2029. Meanwhile, the EU has announced its own plans to invest 200 billion euros in AI infrastructure.

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LG AI Research has introduced new reasoning models (LRMs) named EXAONE Deep. Available in three sizes (2.4B, 7.8B and 32B parameters), the models have been optimized for math, science and programming, as is usual with LRMs. According to the company, the largest model, EXAONE Deep 32B, can keep up with DeepSeek R1 in some benchmarks, but is beaten by the significantly larger model in others. The more compact versions should beat OpenAI's outdated o1-mini and distill variants such as DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen. Unlike the DeepSeek models, LG's models are covered by the EXAONE AI Model License Agreement 1.1 - NC, which excludes commercial use. All EXAONE Deep models are available for research purposes on Hugging Face.

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