Microsoft

Cloud and software giant; operator of Azure and OpenAI's largest backer.

Issue #117: Meta Just Became a Tenant in Its Own Data Centre

Sale and leaseback becomes the model.

SK Group

+25

Issue #116: NVIDIA now owns a big slice of Nebius

9.3%. No press release. Locked up until September.

Tata

+26

Issue #115: Anthropic and OpenAI have a serious problem

The frontier model race is opening up

Apollo

+26

Issue #114: SambaNova Said No to a $1.6b Buyout

And for good reason.

Together AI

+33

Issue #113: Is Meta Quietly Dropping Out of the Frontier Model Race?

Built to compete. Now for rent.

Together AI

+29

Issue #112: 60 People Are on the Hook for $6.3B of Compute

And the model they plan to train doesn't exist yet.

OpenAI

+12

Issue #109: IREN's GPU Debt Goes Investment-Grade, Helion Triples to $15.5B for AI Fusion Power, & CoreWeave Lights Up First VR200

Cheaper money, faster hardware access, bigger cheques, and a $15.5B bet on fusion: to the (current) winners go the spoils.

Megaport

+18

Issue #108: Anthropic Raises $65B at $965B, Releases Opus 4.8 the Same Day, & Groq Returns as a Neocloud After Licensing to NVIDIA

New funding and a new model. On the same day. Dario spoils us.

OpenAI

+16

Issue #107: Iran Wants to Charge for Subsea Cables, Anthropic's Monthly Colossus Bill, & Data Centre Curtailment

Subsea cables were built as public goods. Four American companies turned them into private infrastructure.

OpenAI

+18

Issue #105: Anthropic Rents Cluster Musk Built to Beat Claude, NVIDIA Takes $2.1B Equity in IREN, & Thiel Backs Wave-Powered Ocean Data Centres

The biggest GPU cluster on earth could not produce a competitive model. Maybe GPUs aren't all you need?

Digital Ocean

Issue #102: Shoe Company Pivots to GPUaaS, Microsoft Takes Stargate Norway From OpenAI, & Jane Street Puts $6B Into CoreWeave

OpenAI closes another Stargate. Sustainable footwear provider becomes neocloud. Totally normal week.

OpenAI

+11

Issue #98: Supermicro Co-Founder Charged with Smuggling $2.5B in AI Chips to China, Meta Puts $27B Into Nebius, & Heterogeneous Compute Clusters Take Centre Stage

The export control regime just got its first high-profile criminal case. The defendant was at GTC on Monday.

Cerebras

+12

Issue #93: A Leaked State Department Cable, "AI Snake Oil" & "Peak Insanity", & Brookfield Buys Ori

Washington is fighting the sovereign AI market that its own companies are building for

Issue #89: Musk's Moon Catapults, Firmus Secures $10B for Australia's AI Factories, & $3T in Missing Depreciation

Feat. xAI, SpaceX, Firmus, Submer, Cerebras, OpenaAI, Olix, Fractile, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, AWS, DataVita, Nscale, Nebius, and Anthropic

Firmus

+16

Issue #87: NVIDIA & OpenAI's $100B Breakup, Production Workloads Enter CoreWeave's ARENA, & SpaceX's $1.25T Mega-Merger

Feat. NVIDIA, OpenAI, SpaceX, xAI, CoreWeave, Lambda, Anthropic, Positron AI, Cerebras, Amazon, Google, and Scotland

OpenAI

+13

Issue #86: CoreWeave Gets $2B, Microsoft Ships New Chip, & Anthropic Lands a Government and a Lawsuit

Plus: tier 2 neos raise millions, Korean chips ship, Gulf models compete, and Scotland goes green

MBZUAI

+12

Issue #85: Europe Stops Europing Itself, Voltage Park's Merger & Evolution, & SharonAI's $800M Injection

Plus OpenAI's new revenue model, photonic inference, Nadella's bubble talk, and another 430MW for Applied Digital

OpenAI

Issue #83: Lisa & Jensen Show Off Their Racks, AMD x Italian Robots, & The Global AI Divide

Plus a new tool to improve AI infrastructure provider discovery. Built by The GPU.

OpenAI

Issue #81: Masa & Zuckerberg Go Shopping, Applied Digital Spins Out New Neocloud, & Satya's Mind Bicycle Avoids AI Slop Debate

Feat. SoftBank, Digital Bridge, Applied Digital, ChronoScale, Meta, Manus, xAI, Lisuan, and Microsoft

Lisuan

Issue #78: H200s Return to China, Crusoe Goes Supersonic, & SpaceX Space Data Centres

Feat. NVIDIA, Washington, Beijing, Brookfield, QIA, Crusoe, Boom Supersonic, OpenAI, Intel, SambaNova, Amazon, Microsoft, and SpaceX

OpenAI

+13

Issue #72: Nscale’s Lost Lawsuit, IREN & Lambda Land Microsoft, SpaceX & Google Follow Starcloud Into Orbit

Feat. Nscale, IREN, Lambda, Microsoft, Nebius, Ark Data Centres, Edison Scientific, AWS, OpenAI, Cipher Mining, Starcloud, Crusoe, SpaceX, and Google

OpenAI

+14

Issue #71: OpenAI's IPO Door Opens, KSA & UAE AI Competition Intensifies, & Protein Folding Goes Open Source

Feat. OpenAI, Microsoft, G42, NVIDIA, Huawei, Humain, Qualcomm, OpenFold3, SambaNova, Amazon, and China

OpenAI

+11

Issue #70: Anthropic's Million TPU Google Deal, Crusoe Heads to Orbit, Raises $1.375B & AI Browsers Galore

Feat. NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Crusoe, Starcloud, Microsoft, Alibaba, Meta, Blue Owl, and Applied Digital

OpenAI

+11

Issue #69: OpenAI Opens Door to Porn, Oracle's Zettascale Supercomputer, & NVIDIA's 1MW Rack Future

Feat. OpenAI, Nscale, Microsoft, Nebius, Intel, Oracle, and NVIDIA

OpenAI

Issue #67: Crusoe Brings the Stargate Online, CoreWeave Locks in $14B Meta Contract, & Microsoft Hints at Post-NVIDIA Future

Feat. Crusoe, OpenAI, Oracle, Nscale, CoreWeave, Meta, Anthropic, Cerebras, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Innova

OpenAI

+11