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Confirms Groq's $650m round led by Disruptive and Infinitum, the re-staffing after Nvidia's December $20bn licensing deal pulled founders Jonathan Ross and Sunny Madra, and the pivot to a neocloud inference business running 13 data centers, targeting 200MW of capacity by end-2027.
“Groq's viability now turns on whether its inference cloud can hold up once Nvidia owns the LPU hardware IP that defined it.”
Reports Vishal Sikka's new firm Hang Ten Systems raising a $32m seed led by Mayfield with Aramco Ventures and Jerry Yang on the board, using agentic code generation for AI-native software delivery, already working with Siemens Gamesa and Fresenius.
“Hang Ten theorizes that leverage grows with every project, rather than scaling linearly with headcount.”