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B | 美国媒体报道，NVIDIA要跟AI初创公司Poolside达成一项合作协议，会以120亿美元的估值向公司投资10亿美元，同时花费60亿美元购买该公司的技术产权及部分研发人员。这个合作模式跟NVIDIA去年底与LPU芯片公司Groq的合作相似，不是直接收购这家公司，而是重金获得技术授权及人才，公司还会继续独立运营。Poolside公司大约100多名员工将会加入NVIDIA公司，参与的则是NVIDIA自己开发与的大模型Nemotron，旨在帮助该系列大模型成为全球最强。    LEWES, Del. -- Betsy Rawls trained to be a physicist and instead devoted her life to golf, first as a four-time U.S. Women's Open champion and later as a tournament administrator, a remarkable career that landed her in the World Golf Hall of Fame.Rawls, who won eight majors in her 55 LPGA Tour titles, died Saturday at her beach home in Delaware, the LPGA Tour confirmed. She was 95.“There are simply not many careers that can compare to Betsy's,” said Mike Whan, the CEO of the USGA and former LPGA Tour commissioner.He cited her 55 wins and eight majors — Rawls ranks sixth on both lists — along with her induction into the LPGA and World Golf Hall of Fame, the Bob Jones Award and her 17 years as tournament director of what was then the LPGA Championship.“She was a legend in the game who would have been successful in anything she pursued, so we are all lucky she made golf her passion,”Whan said.The intention was always in the field of physics. That's what Rawls was studying at the University of Texas when she connected with fabled swing coach Harvey Penick. She won the Texas Women's Amateur in 1949 and 1950, and she finished runner-up to Babe Zaharias in the 1950 U.S. Women's Open.“I had every intention of being a physicist,” Rawls said in a story posted on the LPGA's website. "I played golf for fun and never considered turning professional. Then I decided it would be more fun to be in golf than physics, and Wilson paid me a salary and all my expenses. They paid my expenses for 20 years. One year, I gave 120 clinics.”She won the U.S. Women's Open by five shots over Louise Suggs in 1951, the first of four titles in the biggest event in women's golf. Only the late Mickey Wright won as many Opens. Wright once said, "Betsy has always been committed to work and dedicated to the game. I can think of only two women who have achieved as much, not only as players but for their lifetime contributions, and that’s Betsy and Patty Berg.”Rawls was born May 4, 1928, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, though she moved to Texas in 1940 and grew up mostly in Arlington.She won at least once a year from 1951 through 1965. She won the last of her eight majors at age 41 in the 1969 LPGA Championship by four shots.Rawls led the LPGA Tour money list in 1952 and 1959. She won the Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average in 1959 and led the LPGA in victories three times.She was part of the inaugural class for the LPGA Hall of Fame in 1967 and in 1996 received the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor by the USGA. She became the first woman to work the men's U.S. Open as a rules official in 1980.She also was the LPGA president in 1961 and 1962, and after retiring from full-time competition in 1975, she worked a tournament director and later ran the LPGA Championship.“Anyone who can make a living in golf is lucky,” Rawls once said. “Then to receive all the benefits accorded to me in the process … well, that makes me feel fortunate. It’s more than I could possibly deserve.”___AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf。众所周知，NVIDIA是强烈支持开源大模型的，之前也对中国的DeepSeek、Kimi等开源大模型表示赞许，该公司自己的Nemotron大模型也是开源开放的，只不过性能不算出众，达不到DS V4、Kimi K3等中国开源大模型的水平。NVIDIA作为全球最大的AI GPU供应商，而且利润丰厚，在资金及算力资源上优势独特，现在又招揽了一堆人才，Nemotron未来的性能跻身一线是很有希望的。NVIDIA自己下场开发最强的AI大模型，对OpenAI、Anthropic等VIP客户来说不是好事，但老黄这也是以彼之道还施彼身罢了。因为OpenAI、Anthropic两家公司也在大笔购买NVIDIA GPU之外的AI算力，包括谷歌及亚马逊，并且还在开发自己的AI芯片，他们不想依赖NVIDIA的芯片，NVIDIA自然也不能把大模型的希望都放在他们身上。对NVIDIA来说，自己开发最强的开源AI还有别的好处，美国迟早要对中国的开源AI下黑手的，NVIDIA的大模型未来有机会抢这部分市场，他们是不希望DeepSeek、Qwen、Kimi、GLM等中国开源大模型成为美国公司使用的主要大模型。