Google and Blackstone Launch $25B TPU Cloud to Rival Nvidia
Google and Blackstone have announced a $25 billion joint venture to create a standalone AI cloud company powered by Google TPU chips, with 500 MW capacity targeted for 2027.
NVIDIA Vera CPU Lands at Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI
NVIDIA delivered the first Vera CPUs, its first chip purpose-built for agentic AI, to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Oracle on May 18, 2026. The chip targets the orchestration layer Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok run on.
Mistral Bets $830M on European AI Sovereignty
Mistral raises $830M in debt financing to build a Paris data center with 13,800 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs. Why Europe's biggest sovereign AI infrastructure play matters for creative professionals.
Nvidia Invests $2B in AI Cloud Startup Nebius
Nvidia invested $2 billion in Nebius, an Amsterdam-based AI cloud company, in a strategic partnership announced March 11, 2026. The deal commits to deploying more than 5 gigawatts of Nvidia systems through Nebius by 2030, adding a major new full-stack AI cloud alternative to the existing hypersca...