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Featherless.ai, a platform for deploying open-source AI models, has raised $20 million in Series A funding co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures, with participation from BMW i Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Panache Ventures, and Wavemaker Ventures. The company supports over 30,000 open models across language, vision, and audio, positioning itself as a hardware-neutral alternative to […]
Read full articleSANTA CLARA, Calif. and CORNING, N.Y., May 7, 2026 — NVIDIA and Corning Incorporated have announced a multiyear commercial and technology partnership to dramatically expand U.S.-based manufacturing of the advanced optical […] The post NVIDIA and Corning Announce Long-Term Partnership to Strengthen US Manufacturing for AI Infrastructure appeared first on AIwire.
Insider Brief Nyobolt has raised $60 million in series C funding to expand its ultra-fast charging and high-power battery systems for autonomous robots and AI infrastructure, with valuation topping $1 billion. The funding round was led by Symbotic, with participation from IQ Capital, Latitude, Scania Invest and CBMM. The company said revenue increased fivefold year […]
Insider Brief BMW i Ventures announced a new $300 million fund aimed at startups working in artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing in the automotive industry. The independent corporate venture capital arm of BMW AG said its Fund III marks its largest move yet into AI, particularly what it describes as physical AI and agentic AI […]
Many rural communities are viscerally opposed to AI infrastructure.
Many rural communities are viscerally opposed to AI infrastructure, putting them at odds with the White House
Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, Bloomberg reported, with an initial $10 billion commitment at a $350 billion valuation and a further $30 billion contingent on performance targets. The deal expands an existing infrastructure relationship, with Google Cloud now providing Anthropic with a fresh five gigawatts of computing capacity over five […]
A total of 37 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, Crunchbase data shows. The robotics sector led unicorn creation last month, with six new billion-dollar startups.
The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says is too powerful to release publicly …but apparently not too […]
