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According to a16z, it has eyes around the world in order to spot companies as early as local funds might. Source

The reason why this nascent startup had VCs lining up is the founders.They are so famed in the AI world, everyone tried to hire them. Source

"From an AI research perspective, this is nothing novel," one expert told TechCrunch. Source

"We're exploring a different set of tradeoffs." Source

As India's first AI company to IPO, Fractal Analytics didn't have a stellar first day on the public markets, as enthusiasm for the technology collided with jittery investors in the wake of a sell-off in Indian software stocks. Source

India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state. Source

Terra Industries, the African defense company, announced Monday that it had secured an additional $22 million in funding to further expand the business.  Source

Neysa is targeting deployments of more than 20,000 GPUs over time as demand for local AI compute accelerates. Source

C2i has raised $15 million as it tests a grid-to-GPU approach to reducing power losses in AI data centers. Source

The longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the company’s NotebookLM tool is based on him. Source