Google justifies huge AI spending with booming cloud business

Alphabet's cloud revenue surged 82% year-over-year to $24.8 billion, driven by enterprise AI adoption. CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted strong demand and long-term deals, with capital expenditures expected between $180 billion and $190 billion for the year.

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Nunchaku Lite Brings 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers

Nunchaku Lite, a new integration in Hugging Face Diffusers, allows loading 4-bit quantized diffusion models with a simple from_pretrained() call, without custom pipelines or local CUDA compilation. It reduces VRAM by up to 50% and speeds up inference by about 1.35x, with further gains via torch.compile.

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