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Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal
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Tim Fernholz
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AI startup General Compute has secured a $400 million loan using inference-specific chips as collateral, marking a shift in how AI infrastructure is financed. This move reflects a growing market demand for cost-effective, power-efficient hardware for running AI models.
General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has landed a $400 million loan from Upper90, a tech investment firm. It might be the first deal to put up inference-specific chips as collateral — chips built to run already-trained AI models quickly and efficiently, rather than the more expensive chips used to build the models in the first place.
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