Amazon.com Inc. reportedly plans to outsource some of its artificial intelligence chips and then lease them back. The Financial Times today quoted Sources said the transaction would be a special purpose vehicle (SPV). An SPV is a type of legal entity that companies set up to streamline the administrative aspects of large businesses. Such vehicles … Read more
AI-native cybersecurity requires defenses that can keep pace with attackers while protecting infrastructure that never stops running. That challenge is to bring security expertise and specialized computing closer together and to integrate automation into all the systems companies use to train and run models. According to Bartley Richardson (pictured left), head of AI at CrowdStrike … Read more
FieldAI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence models for robots, is reportedly seeking $700 million in funding. A source told Business Insider said today that the round could value the company at $10 billion. That’s five times what FieldAI was worth last August. The company is understood to have already signed a term sheet, … Read more
Supabase Inc., a startup that markets the open-source PostgreSQL database, has raised $150 million in funding. Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC led the deal. They were joined by Alphabet Inc’s CapitalG, IronArc and SquarePeg. Supabase announced the raise today along with another business milestone: The company has agreed to buy database startup Turso for an … Read more
Seattle-based artificial intelligence research firm the Allen Institute for AI announced Thursday a large language model development framework that significantly improves the way large language models are trained with mixed experts. The new Olmo-core 3 framework enables MoE training to reach the trillion-parameter scale while keeping costs low by maintaining computational efficiency. Expert mixture models … Read more
The Neocloud market is moving away from its origins as a stopgap solution for scarce graphics processors. AI-native startups now choose their infrastructure based on latency, burst capacity and openness, not just chip availability. That shift is happening at CoreWeave Inc., which is expanding beyond GPU computing power into networking, storage and software as inference … Read more
Satlyt Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence software for satellites, has raised $8 million in funding. TechCrunch reported today announced that the seed round was led by early-stage fund Non Sibi Ventures. Satlyt was founded in 2024 by Managing Director Rama Afullo (pictured, second from left). He was previously a product manager at SpaceX … Read more
Microsoft Corp. today expanded its MAI artificial intelligence model family with its first streaming transcription model, debuting along with two others focused on text-to-speech. They are designed for developers who want to create voice agents that can listen to people’s voices and respond instantly, similar to how people talk to each other. The most consequential … Read more
Cybersecurity startup Armadin Inc. announced today that it has raised $255.5 million in funding at a valuation of over $2.5 billion. Andreessen Horowitz and Accel jointly led the Series B round. They were joined by Alphabet Inc.’s GV Startup Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Menlo Ventures and others. Armadin was founded last year by well-known cybersecurity entrepreneur … Read more
The economics of AI factories increasingly depend on more than just access to powerful graphics processing units. Because agent systems rely on multiple models, databases and tools, the entire data center must function as a single computer system. This transition shifts attention from individual chips to the infrastructure that converts computing capacity into useful intelligence. … Read more