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Silicon Data bets Wall Street needs a price for AI compute

Silicon Data raised $30M to build an AI compute index and futures market, aiming to give Wall Street a price for GPU rental.

Vivodyne says AI drug discovery needs human tissue data, not bigger models, and it just opened a robotic human data center near San Francisco.

Nvidia’s compute financing push could turn GPUs into collateral, attract Wall Street capital, and reshape AI infrastructure lending.

AI hardware startup Etched raises $700 million at a $21 billion valuation after Jane Street tests and buys its inference systems.

Anthropic revenue hit a $65B annualized run rate, boosting IPO expectations and intensifying the AI race with OpenAI.

Stripe reportedly finalized an OpenRouter acquisition above $7 billion, signaling a major bet on AI routing infrastructure.

Meta’s open AI push comes with limits as AI costs, Anthropic watermarks and a $250M deal collapse expose the industry’s growing tensions.

French startup Kog is betting GPU inference software can unlock major speed gains on standard datacenter chips and attract enterprise customers.

Writer launched Palmyra X6 and a new harness to boost AI cost reduction, claiming up to 50% savings for enterprise tasks.

Databricks funding rose to $5B at a $190B valuation after investor demand hit $15B, fueling AI, acquisitions and growth.