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H100 Price Index — Q3 2026
H100 spot pricing fell 18% quarter-over-quarter as Tier-1 neoclouds continued expanding capacity across EU-West and US-East.
B200 Early Access: Who's Actually Shipping
A field survey of the eight providers with confirmed Blackwell inventory as of July 2026 and what reservation terms actually look like.
A Practical Guide to Sovereign AI Compute in Europe
GDPR, EU AI Act, and the compute stack: what sovereign actually buys you, and which providers deliver it.
Cost Per Token: 2026 Inference Benchmark
We benchmarked Llama 3.1 70B and Mixtral 8x22B across 14 providers to derive normalized cost per million tokens.
Spot Market Outlook: Second Half 2026
Spot supply is up, spot volatility is down, and reservation displacement is beginning. What that means for buyers.
TPU vs GPU in 2026: The Case Reopens
With TPU v5p mature and TPU v6 on the horizon, is the Google stack back in the conversation for training?