Tag: AI Infrastructure

Nvidia starts certifying the power gear behind its AI factories

A new qualification program puts batteries and cooling units through Nvidia's DSX reference requirements.

Lightmatter halves fiber counts with a bidirectional optical module

Lightmatter has joined the Open CPX MSA and shipped a module that puts both directions of an optical…

Microsoft publishes TauGrid to schedule GPU work on Kubernetes

Microsoft has open-sourced TauGrid, a Kubernetes platform that bundles the queuing, scheduling and monitoring pieces AI teams usually…

Rune raises $40M to put GPUs at solar farms

Rune has raised $40M for a data center design that installs behind the meter at renewable plants, capturing…

Crusoe lands Perplexity for training and serving on GB300 racks

The multi-year deal puts Perplexity's full model lifecycle on Crusoe Cloud and hands enterprise AI tools to Crusoe's…

Nvidia pitches power efficiency as the new AI data center metric

At a Santa Clara event that doubled in size, Nvidia pitched a power optimization layer it says delivers…

Crusoe doubles down on Tulsa with a second components plant

Crusoe has opened a second Tulsa factory making the switchgear and busbar that sit underneath its AI campuses.

Buildots banks $130M to track data center builds with AI

Construction intelligence startup Buildots has raised $130M as AI data center schedules tighten around the world.

Temporal raises $550M as reliability becomes an AI selling point

Temporal closed a $550M Series E at a $12.55B valuation, betting that AI-era software needs durable execution underneath…

Astra demand pushes OpenAI to close its priciest ChatGPT tier

OpenAI has stopped taking new $200-a-month Pro subscriptions while it works to keep its newest model online for…

Ayar Labs raises another $150M to push optics past copper

The co-packaged optics company lifts its 2026 total to $650M and opens a design center in Bengaluru as…

DeepSeek shrinks its KV cache to fit million-token contexts

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash targets the memory bill behind long-running agents, cutting cache footprint to 890 bytes per token.