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2026-08-21 14:00 [Industry Trend] [SRC↗]

Starcloud Adds $250M to Build Orbital AI Data Centers, With Nvidia Backing

Starcloud, a startup building satellites that run AI inference in orbit, raised a $250 million extension to its Series A at a $2.3 billion valuation, with participation from Nvidia and Cisco. The funds will expand manufa...

[Compute Scaling] [Nvidia GPUs] [orbital data centers] [AI inference] [spacex starship]

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2026-04-24 12:00 [Commercial Release] [SRC↗]

Meta Commits to Millions of Amazon's Graviton AI CPUs in Major Cloud Deal

Meta has signed a deal with AWS to use millions of Amazon's homegrown Graviton ARM-based CPUs for AI workloads, particularly for inference and AI agent tasks. This marks a shift from GPU-dominated training workloads to C...

[Meta] [Cloud Computing] [AWS] [AI inference] [Graviton CPU]

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2026-03-23 16:00 [Commercial Release] [SRC↗]

Gimlet Labs Raises $80M Series A for Multi-Silicon AI Inference Optimization Platform

Gimlet Labs, founded by Stanford professor Zain Asgar, has raised an $80 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures for its multi-silicon inference cloud platform. The software orchestrates AI workloads across diverse hardwa...

[compute optimization] [AI inference] [hardware orchestration] [data center efficiency] [menlo ventures]

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