Tag: GB300
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Google Puts TPUv7 Through an Outside Agentic Benchmark
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / October 25, 2026 Google’s first TPUv7 submission to an outside agentic-inference benchmark landed this week. The operator’s October 14, 2026 announcement reports FP8 results served through vLLM at 1.67x better performance per dollar than NVIDIA’s GB300 NVL72 at FP4 the operator’s announcement thread. The submission is the first submitted…
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New NVFP4 Checkpoints on Four DGX Sparks: The Results
Between September 9 and September 16, NVIDIA published first-party NVFP4 checkpoints for two frontier open-weight models, both MIT-licensed. One is a build of Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash; the other is a build of DeepSeek’s DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. Both labs produced them with NVIDIA Model Optimizer and validated both on rack-mount Blackwell silicon rather than on the desk. That distinction…
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What You Can Run on a DGX Spark Today (Mid-2026)
A wave of open-source recipes and community benchmarks this week clarified what the deskside AI inference market can do in mid-2026 on NVIDIA DGX Spark hardware.