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Sources: Fluidstack, an AI cloud provider that is aiding Google's effort to expand access to its TPUs, is in talks to raise $700M led by Situational Awareness (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-cloud-pr…

AI Cloud Provider Aiding Google’s Chip Push Is in Talks to Raise $700 Million
Fluidstack, a cloud provider aiding Google’s AI chip push, is in talks to raise more than $700 million in new financing, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. A one-year-old investment fund started by ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner is in talks to lead the financing, one ...

Sources: Google has begun pitching customers, including Meta and big financial institutions, on the idea of using TPUs in their own data centers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-encroaches-nvidias-turf-new-ai-chip-push

Google Further Encroaches on Nvidia’s Turf With New AI Chip Push
Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia in the AI chip business. For years, the search giant has rented its own AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to cloud customers who use them in its Google Cloud data centers. Now, though, Google has begun ...