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TechCrunch reports the seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with 8 million users at the one-year mark. The origin is the pattern: co-founder Shijia Liao, a former NVIDIA video researcher, trained the initial models on a single gaming GPU, and Fish Speech passed 31,000 stars before the company existed. Models cover 83+ languages and can be self-hosted, which is the explicit wedge against ElevenLabs for teams that won't send voice data to a closed API.
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TechCrunch's August 29 piece frames Nvidia's durable advantage as system-level, built around Vera Rubin pairing the Rubin GPU with the Vera CPU, a Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator, and storage and networking racks. VP of storage technology Jason Hardy is quoted claiming "upwar...
TechCrunch covers an interactive world model available via API on day one, aimed first at AV companies simulating rare edge cases at scale, with robotics next. Its DOS optimization stack runs across NVIDIA, Amazon, and Google hardware, undercutting competitors on cost. Real-ti...
Priced August 12 at SOFR + 3.00%, issued at 99.5 of par, Moody's Baa2. Lambda calls it the first broadly syndicated, investment-grade-rated term loan B completed by a private neocloud and its first large-scale GPU asset-backed SPV financing, tied to a committed deployment for...
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation — one of the largest seed rounds in history. Co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, and HV Capital, with participation from Bezos Expeditions and NVIDIA. LeCun is explicitly betting...
LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03B at $3.5B pre-money — Europe's largest-ever seed round. Investors include NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Samsung, Toyota. LeCun's thesis: LLMs are fundamentally wrong for intelligence because they learn from text, not the physical world. AMI will build "worl...
Business Insider reported over the weekend that talks would value it around $13 billion or higher, roughly triple its 2023 Series D at $4.5 billion led by Salesforce Ventures (TechCrunch). The buyer is unidentified. CEO Clem Delangue previously turned down a $500 million Nvidi...
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