Nvidia discusses credit guarantees for Nscale's 460MW data center
Nvidia is in talks to provide AI cloud provider Nscale with billions of dollars in credit guarantees, The Information reported, citing sources. The guarantees would support debt to develop a 460MW data center that Anthropic plans to use.
Banks outline $63 billion financing plan for Anthropic compute
Financial institutions including Bank of America, Citi, Morgan Stanley and Blackstone outlined a $63 billion plan this week to finance additional AI computing capacity for Anthropic, CIO Dive reported in an article republished by Yahoo. The financial partners will buy Broadcom XPU AI accelerators and networking products and lease them to Anthropic starting in 2027.
Alphabet filing details more than $1tn in future payment commitments
Alphabet's quarterly filing published Thursday details more than $1tn in future payments for computing, energy and data centres, The Next Web reported. The commitments do not appear on its balance sheet.
AWS Batch adds GPU quota sharing for SageMaker training jobs
AWS has introduced quota management in AWS Batch for SageMaker Training jobs, allowing administrators to allocate compute capacity by team or project and automatically share idle resources. Teams can reserve their allocation, lend unused capacity, or both lend and borrow.
FuriosaAI raises $620m to expand inference chip production
FuriosaAI announced a $620m Series D round valuing the Seoul-based AI chipmaker at about $2.9bn. South Korea's National Growth Fund invested $280m, the largest contribution.
Symbotic says Walmart commits additional $6B to distribution automation
Symbotic said Walmart has committed an additional $6B over several years to deploy its supply-chain automation technology across the retailer's distribution network.
