Oxide Computer raised a $445 million Series D led by Eclipse Capital to expand production of its pre-integrated on-prem data center rack. For infrastructure teams weighing one, the round is mostly about delivery, since chief executive Steve Tuck says demand still outruns supply.
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buildConfirmed3 publishers Vinci raised $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation to extend its chip thermal simulator into vibration and electromagnetics. Its self-reported speed now has to hold up in repeated production use, next to the Cadence and Synopsys tools already in design flows.
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- Adoption18
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives65
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Kepler bets $468M that memory density can come from new materials instead of EUV
The company's own number is SRAM as dense as 2nm or 3nm logic with no extreme ultraviolet lithography, and what publicly backs it is two years of mini-fab runs inside a GlobalFoundries plant in Singapore.
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- Hype gap+38
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Kepler claims 2nm-class SRAM density out of 28nm fabs without buying EUV
Kepler Computing has $468mn, up to $245mn committed by the US Commerce Department, and mini fabs running inside GlobalFoundries, which is more than most memory startups get and still short of anything a buyer can schedule against.
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- Evidence45
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- Hype gap+38
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Universal, Sony and Warner all took equity in Stability AI's $76 million Series B. Two years after suing AI song generators, the majors are buying the toolmakers.
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Universal, Warner and Sony Music now own a piece of the company selling licensed music models. The money funds a narrower Stability: professional tooling, sold through a plugin.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers A $76M Series B puts four rights holders on a generative-media vendor's cap table. What it does not put anywhere is a disclosed spending commitment, valuation, or revenue figure.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption42
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives78
- Confidence62