GPU Financiers Pivot to Inference Chips in a $400M Chip-Backed Loan

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The first wave of GPU-financing firms is turning to inference silicon, with a new $400 million chip-backed loan signaling the next phase of AI infrastructure debt deals. The shift reflects capital moving from training-cluster buildouts toward the inference capacity that actually serves production workloads. It's an early data point that AI hardware financing is maturing into a distinct asset class.