… To make those investments in AI infrastructure, the AI model builders have themselves had to raise tremendous amounts of money from investors – sometimes including their AI compute engine suppliers, which is a bit of roundtripping, indeed. …
… Meta Platforms is not precisely an infrastructure cloud, but as it is renting out capacity on its iron to run Llama model APIs much as OpenAI and Anthropic do with their respective GPT and Claude GenAI models, it is becoming a GenAI platform cloud for various kinds of sovereigns – and is seeking th… …
… Perkins tells The Next Platform that the company raised “well in excess of $200 million so far.” The chatter on the Intertubes is that the seed round was around $30 million and the Series A round was more than $200 million. …