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Latest news, analysis, and insights about Infrastructure.
Transformers v5 Brings Breaking Changes: What Developers Need to Know for Migration
HuggingFace just shipped Transformers v5—their first major release in five years—with significant breaking changes to dynamic weight loading and tokenization. If you're running any production ML pipeline, you need to read this before upgrading.
LiveKit Reaches Unicorn Status With $100M Raise, Cementing Its Role as Voice AI's Backbone
LiveKit, the real-time communication engine powering OpenAI's Realtime API, just hit unicorn status with a $100M Series B led by Index Ventures. The five-year-old startup's $1B valuation signals that the picks-and-shovels bet in conversational AI is paying off.
Inferact's $150M Seed Round Signals a New Era for AI Inference Infrastructure
A brand-new startup just raised $150 million at an $800 million valuation to commercialize vLLM. The seed round is one of the largest ever in AI infrastructure—and it signals a dramatic shift in how inference technology gets funded and deployed.
Inside OpenAI's PostgreSQL Architecture Powering ChatGPT at Unprecedented Scale
OpenAI just pulled back the curtain on how they keep ChatGPT running for 800 million users. The answer isn't exotic new database technology—it's PostgreSQL, scaled to millions of queries per second through smart engineering.
Ion Stoica's SGLang Project Becomes RadixArk with $400M Valuation from Accel
The Berkeley lab that gave us Spark and Ray has done it again. SGLang, the open-source inference optimization project, is spinning out as RadixArk with a $400M valuation from Accel—signaling that the AI inference market is about to get very interesting.
Articul8 Raises $70M at 5x Valuation Jump as Enterprise AI Infrastructure Demand Surges
Articul8, the enterprise AI company spun out of Intel, is raising $70 million at a $500 million valuation—roughly five times its Series A price. The round, already more than half subscribed, signals strong investor appetite for enterprise AI infrastructure plays.
Alphabet's $4.75 Billion Intersect Power Deal Signals AI's New Infrastructure Arms Race
Alphabet is paying $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for Intersect Power—a data center and clean energy developer. The acquisition signals that Big Tech's AI ambitions now require owning the power plants, not just the GPUs.
NVIDIA Buys Slurm Creator SchedMD, Promising Open-Source Continuity for HPC Workloads
NVIDIA has acquired SchedMD, the company behind Slurm—the workload management system running on more than half of the world's top 100 supercomputers. The move extends NVIDIA's reach deeper into the AI training stack while raising questions about infrastructure consolidation.
OpenAI Buys Neptune: A Bet on Infrastructure as Models Grow Unwieldy
OpenAI just bought an experiment tracking company. That tells you everything about where frontier AI development is headed—not just bigger models, but the unglamorous infrastructure needed to keep them from becoming unmanageable.
OpenAI and NVIDIA Launch Stargate UK with 50,000 GPUs for National AI Independence
The UK just secured its own AI compute destiny. OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Nscale are building Britain's largest supercomputer with up to 50,000 GPUs—a direct play for AI sovereignty in an increasingly fragmented global tech landscape.