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Reported September 3-4 at above $18B, up from an $830M Series A at $7.5B earlier this year. Fluidstack builds and operates data centers for Google and Anthropic rather than selling a model, and Forbes frames it as helping Google reduce dependence on Nvidia. Jane Street leading a round this size means AI infrastructure is being underwritten as a contracted-cashflow asset now, not a venture bet (Forbes).
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Huang used his inaugural X post on July 24 to publish "Open Weights and American AI Leadership," a three-page letter on Nvidia's own servers signed by 25 companies including Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Mistral, Mozilla, Hugging Face, a16z, Palantir and the Linux Foundation. Within a...
It's a vertical-integration play that mirrors Google's TPU and Meta's Iris silicon, aimed at cutting Nvidia dependence while positioning for public markets (BuildFastWithAI). If it's real, it says the model makers now think the chip is part of the moat, not a commodity you ren...
Per Anthropic, the expansion secures next-gen compute (TPUs and Broadcom accelerators) for training and serving, continuing the move to diversify off NVIDIA. Compute supply is the central constraint deciding which models you can access and at what price. Today's Fable pricing...
In an FT op-ed surfaced by Fortune, Altman called for a US-led forum to set AI standards and provide impartial capability and risk analysis. Fortune frames it as OpenAI pivoting to governance-setting as it slips against Google and Anthropic. When you can't win on benchmarks, y...
CNN reports all five frontier labs (adding Google, Microsoft, and xAI to existing OpenAI and Anthropic agreements) now let the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation review models before public release. The agreement is voluntary, but normalization of gov...
Founding signatories include AWS, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft and GitHub, IBM, Red Hat, Cisco, JPMorganChase, Citi, the Rust Foundation, Zscaler, and Sonatype, with OpenSSF, CNCF, and OpenInfra participating. The open letter drew 455 points on HN. (Akrites / L...
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