Axelera AI: Europe’s Hidden Contender in the AI Chip Race

Wednesday, November 26, 2025
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In the world of artificial intelligence, giants like NVIDIA dominate the conversation. Yet a European player is quietly making waves: Axelera AI, a Dutch startup focused on high-performance, energy-efficient AI chips. Often compared to NVIDIA — sometimes even by themselves — Axelera promises a striking advantage: up to a hundred times faster performance in specific applications, all while operating at a fraction of the scale and cost of large GPU makers.

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Captains of AI – Sundar Pichai: The Strategist, The Stabiliser, The Silent Power of the Machine Age

Saturday, November 22, 2025
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If the AI revolution had a calm center of gravity, it would be Sundar Pichai — the soft-spoken strategist who quietly runs one of the most powerful AI engines on the planet.
While others make noise, Pichai makes scale. While others argue about AGI, he simply builds the infrastructure to get there.

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Google Gemini 3 — A New Phase in the AI Race

Friday, November 21, 2025

Artificial intelligence is moving fast, sometimes faster than anyone can keep up with. Every few months a new breakthrough appears, promising more reasoning power, more creativity, more accuracy. Google’s release of Gemini 3 marks one of those moments where the landscape shifts again. Not because it replaces everything that came before, but because it shows how AI is evolving from a simple assistant into something much closer to a thinking partner.

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Captains of AI – Jensen Huang: The Architect, the Alchemist, the Accelerator of the Machine Age

Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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If the AI revolution had a quiet architect, it would be Jensen Huang — the leather-jacketed engineer who turned graphic cards into the engines of the intelligence economy. While others debate AGI, geopolitics or cosmic destiny, Huang simply builds the hardware that makes everything possible. In a world obsessed with software, he reminds us that intelligence still needs a physical body — transistors, silicon and a surprising amount of cooling.

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