Nvidia's $500B AI Fund + Microsoft Maia 300 Chip

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 11 August 2026


Nvidia teams up with Wall Street giants on a $500B AI infrastructure fund

Microsoft set to unveil its Maia 300 AI chip, targeting over 1 million units by 2027

TSMC and Sony plan a $6.3B image sensor factory in Japan for 2029

Meta releases open-weight Muse Glimmer model for on-device agentic AI

Material Discovery Bench offers a free, open-source AI materials science benchmark

Muse Glimmer lets European users run agentic AI locally without cloud dependency