Tag: AI Infrastructure
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.
AWS open-sources an agent-run control plane for HyperPod clusters
InstantStart wraps EKS and SageMaker HyperPod behind one container whose web UI, API, and agent share the same…
Perplexity reuses LLM kernels to keep embedding serving cheap
Engineers at Perplexity detail a GPU stack where batch and online embedding workloads borrow prefill and decode paths.
Crusoe banks $3B at a $30B valuation for AI campus buildout
The AI data center builder behind Stargate's Texas campus raised $3B at a $30B valuation, Bloomberg reports.
Figure’s robot future rides on a $3.5B GPU deal with Nscale
Humanoid maker Figure reserves up to 100,000 Vera Rubin GPUs and takes investment from AI cloud firm Nscale.
Nordic data center firm atNorth lands $4B close with new owners
CPP Investments takes control and Equinix buys in as Partners Group keeps a 10 percent stake.