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Frore Systems Raises $143M for AI Chip Cooling
Frore Systems, founded by two ex-Qualcomm engineers, just raised $143M at a $1.64B valuation for AI chip liquid cooling. A demo that caught Jensen Huang's eye sparked the pivot — now Fidelity and Qualcomm Ventures are backing the bet that heat is AI's biggest bottleneck.
Frore Raises $143M as AI Cooling Hits a Wall
Frore Systems just raised $143M at a $1.64B unicorn valuation for its custom 3D liquid cooling technology. As AI chips race past 1,400 watts toward 4,000+, cooling infrastructure is becoming the critical bottleneck in the entire AI buildout.
DeepSeek V4 Drops Next Week on Huawei Silicon
DeepSeek V4 launches next week as a trillion-parameter multimodal model with native audio, video, image, and text generation. Its optimization for Huawei's Ascend chips over Nvidia marks a turning point in China's push for a fully domestic AI stack.
Neurophos Bets $110M That Light, Not Electrons, Will Power AI Inference
Neurophos just raised $110 million to build optical processors that use light instead of electrons for AI inference. With data centers hitting power walls, photonic computing might finally have its moment.
OpenAI Enters Hardware Race: Why the AI Giant Is Betting on Earbuds
OpenAI confirmed plans to ship its first hardware device in the second half of 2026, with earbuds as the leading candidate. The move marks a major strategic shift for the AI leader as it competes for space in your daily life.