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Artificial Analysis Launches AA-AgentPerf: The Hardware Benchmark Built for the Agent Era
Artificial Analysis launches AA-AgentPerf, a hardware benchmark that uses real coding agent trajectories instead of synthetic queries. It allows production optimizations, measures per-accelerator/per-kW/per-dollar efficiency, and scales from single cards to full racks.
GTC 2026: Nvidia's Inference Empire Keeps Expanding — Groq IP Deal, LPU Decoded, CPO Roadmap
SemiAnalysis's deep dive on GTC 2026: Nvidia's $20B Groq IP deal to acquire LPU tech, plus updates on AFD, CPO, Kyber/Oberon, Vera ETL256, and CMX/STX. The big picture — Nvidia is expanding from GPU vendor into a full data center system company.
Nvidia's Plot Twist: A CPU Built for AI Agents?
Nvidia is rumored to unveil an AI agent-optimized CPU at this week's GTC. The bigger question: is hardware design shifting from 'for humans' to 'for AI agents'?
NVIDIA's Compute Magic: The Insane Efficiency Leap from Hopper to Rubin
SemiAnalysis shows that each new NVIDIA architecture (Hopper, Blackwell, Rubin) draws more power but delivers disproportionately more compute per watt.
OpenAI × Cerebras: Codex-Spark Codes 15x Faster — But What's the Catch?
OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first model on Cerebras chips. It's incredibly fast (>1000 tokens/sec, 80% lower latency), but smaller, no auto-tests, Pro-only. This marks OpenAI's first production deployment on non-Nvidia hardware, redrawing the AI compute landscape.