
General Compute’s $400M inference-chip loan signals a new AI financing wave
General Compute lands a $400 million loan from Upper90, signaling that inference chips are becoming a major new AI financing asset.
Developments in large language models like GPT-3 for text processing.

General Compute lands a $400 million loan from Upper90, signaling that inference chips are becoming a major new AI financing asset.

Google Vids adds AI video avatars and Gemini Omni, letting users create and edit personalized videos faster for work and training.

Former DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised $55M for Elorian at a $300M valuation, betting big on visual AI before product launch.

Kimi 3 could match Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 as Moonshot readies its largest open-weight model and new funding push.

The EU’s Google DMA ruling forces Android and Search access changes that could boost AI rivals and reshape competition in Europe.

Industrial AI startup Applied Computing raised $20M to scale Orbital, its model for oil and gas plants, backed by KBR and Databricks Ventures.

Microsoft’s AI strategy is shifting as it reportedly coaches sales teams to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic on cost, speed and security.

AI slop movies are being used as marketing stunts, with Fountain 0’s Odysseus: The Fall tied to Nolan’s Odyssey buzz.

New research on baby-like AI shows today’s models still struggle to learn from messy real-world data the way infants do.

Ode is betting enterprise AI services will become a major category, using embedded engineers to turn pilots into production.