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GMI Cloud is a GPU cloud provider that rents GPU compute capacity for AI training and inference workloads.
GMI Cloud is giving developers seven days of free access to Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max, Qwen3.8-Flash and Wan3.0 via an OpenAI-compatible API. For a company built on renting GPU capacity, the week tests whether developers will take its inference service as an API.
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Instinct, a year-old AI assistant maker, raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, about 35% of the equity in the week's ten biggest U.S. rounds. With eight of the ten going to AI companies, the week's venture money sat in one sector and, to a large degree, in one round.
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GMI Cloud raised $663 million: a $223 million Series B with Nvidia in the round and a $440 million credit facility from ChinaTrust Commercial Bank. Teams that need GPUs in Taiwan, Thailand or Malaysia get a funded local supplier whose expansion rests mostly on borrowed money.
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GMI Cloud raised $668 million, two-thirds of it through a $445 million credit facility led by CTBC and the rest as a $223 million Series B. Repaying debt on that scale depends on the more than $600 million in contracted annual revenue GMI reports and on how quickly it puts GPUs into production to serve it.
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FastGPU's September 27 snapshot of 28 GPU clouds puts the cheapest hyperscaler H100 at $5.38 an hour, 3.0x the $1.79 market floor. That premium buys IAM, managed services and credits, and it is worth paying when a team actually uses them.
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The new commands are the easy part. The change worth reviewing is that the token your deploy job already holds can now edit DNS records, renew a domain and add a project member, all with clean JSON output.
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