Nvidia
Dominant designer of GPUs and AI accelerators; the core supplier of AI compute hardware.
Issue #118: A Two-Year-Old With Nothing to Sell Just Raised $312M
At a $3.3bn valuation. Arm and Netflix's co-founder are in. First chip: 2027.
DeepSeek
+27
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 #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 #103: SpaceX Options Coding Platform Distilled from Chinese Model the White House Accused China of Stealing for $60B, Anthropic Hits $30B Revenue, & 3 Frontier Models Ship
Distillation is apparently theft when China does it to American models and a $60 billion acquisition target when an American company does it to Chinese ones.
DeepSeek
+12
Issue #100: Anthropic Leaks Claude Code & Mythos, CoreWeave Closes First A3-Rated GPU Debt, & Sharon AI Lands Aussie Decacorn Customer
OpenClaw is now only the second most-starred GitHub repo in history
OpenAI
+9
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 #96: NVIDIA Puts $2B Into 5GW Nebius Partnership, Nscale Raises $2B & Questions from The Guardian, & xAI's 41 Gas Turbines
The biggest week in AI infrastructure this year. And a scaffolding yard in Essex.
Oracle
+8
Issue #91: Sharon AI Goes Public with 432 GPUs, AMDs Alleged $300M Crusoe Backstop, & Submer's Radian Arc Expands in India
Feat. Sharon AI, Mistral, Koyeb, AMD, Crusoe, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, G42, Cerebras, Meta, NVIDIA, Submer, Radian Arc, GTPL and Datasamudra
Mistral
+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 #84: Apple Chooses Google, NVIDIA & AMD China Tariffs Take Effect, & AI-Driven Genetic Engineering
Feat. Google, Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, Washington, Polarise, Macquarie, Basecamp Research, OpenAI, Cerebras, Meta, Soluna, Metrobloks, Bitzero, and HydraHost
OpenAI
+14
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
+9
Issue #80: NVIDIA's Christmas Groq Acquihire, xAI Seeks to Outcompute Everyone, & Fermi America's Legal Trouble
Feat. NVIDIA, Groq, xAI, Nscale, Whitefiber, Z.ai, DRAM, Google, Intersect Power, and Fermi America
z.ai
+10
