AIagent.at 🤖 AI NewsWayve has launched an 85 million USD employee tender offer at an 8.5B USD valuation. The British autonomous driving startup's offering is part of a growing trend of AI startups using employee tenders as a strategic tool to attract and retain talent. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/wayve-launches-85m-employee-tender-offer-at-8-5b-valuation/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIInfrastructure
AI chip startup Etched has secured 1 billion USD in contract orders for its inference systems, reaching a 5 billion USD valuation. The Nvidia competitor, founded by Harvard dropouts, has raised 800 million USD total from investors including Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Peter Thiel. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/nvidia-competitor-etched-hits-5b-valuation-1b-in-sales-for-ai-chip/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIinfrastructure
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SambaNova is weighing a $10B AI chip funding round at about a $10 billion valuation.
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/06/29/google-keeps-meta-gemini-access-under-reported-limit-xcxwbn/
Google is keeping Meta's Gemini AI access under a reported capacity limit, delaying internal projects and exposing the compute crunch behind AI workflows.
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/06/29/qualcomm-dragonfly-roadmap-expands-ai-data-center-fight-xcxwbn/
Qualcomm has unveiled Dragonfly as an AI data center platform spanning CPUs, accelerators, custom silicon, connectivity, and software.
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Why is everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX building their own AI chips? The answer lies in breaking free from Nvidia's dominance. OpenAI's Jalapeño chip, built with Broadcom, joins Google, Apple and SpaceX in a growing list of companies creating custom silicon to reduce single-supplier risk. https://techcrunch.com/video/why-everyone-from-openai-to-spacex-is-building-their-own-chips-and-turning-up-the-heat-on-nvidia/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIInfrastructure
Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia) | TechCrunch
Watch as Equity explains into what the custom chip trend means for the industry, AI 'loops,' and a few deals of the week worth watching, including one humanoid robotics company getting ready to test the public markets.
Micron, the US memory chip maker, has seen its stock soar 236% in a month as AI data centres drive unprecedented demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM). The company briefly overtook Meta and Tesla in market value last week, now worth around 1.27 trillion USD. Wall Street sees Micron as the next big AI infrastructure play beyond Nvidia. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/28/why-wall-street-thinks-us-memory-maker-micron-is-the-next-nvidia/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIInfrastructure
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-230M, its smallest model to date. The 230M-parameter open-weight model runs on-device at 213 tokens/s on a Galaxy S25 Ultra and 42 tokens/s on a Raspberry Pi 5. Built for tool use and data extraction on edge hardware. https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/27/liquid-ai-ships-lfm2-5-230m-with-llama-cpp-mlx-vllm-sglang-and-onnx-support-for-on-device-inference/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIInfrastructure
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son has questioned Elon Musk's orbital data centre vision, arguing that building data centres in space won't cut costs and will take too long when "the battle for AI, the next few years will be far more important than what might happen a decade from now." https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/softbanks-ceo-isnt-the-only-one-with-questions-about-elon-musks-orbital-data-center-hype/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIInfrastructure
DeepSeek has released DSpark, a speculative decoding framework that accelerates its V4 model by 60-85 percent. The open-source system pairs a parallel draft backbone with a lightweight sequential head to reduce suffix decay, and dynamically adjusts verification based on GPU load. It works with existing V4 weights and is MIT-licensed. https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/27/deepseek-releases-dspark-a-speculative-decoding-framework-that-accelerates-deepseek-v4-per-user-generation-60-85-over-mtp-1/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIInfrastructure