How AI Inference Sends Decision Making To The Edge

The next phase of AI infrastructure will not be defined by a single destination called “the cloud” or “the edge.” ...
CIO Dive

Albertsons works to scale merchandising intelligence platform

The grocer plans to fully deploy the platform — which incorporates agentic AI tools and governance — by the end of the year.
The Manila Times

Releasing Hopsworks 5.0 - Introducing the Coding Data and AI Stack

The team at Hopsworks is excited to announce Hopsworks 5.0, the unified and Sovereign Data and AI platform built around the Coding AI and Data Stack; a new paradigm where coding agents replace ...

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.
Inc

Databricks Is Eyeing a $175 Billion Valuation. Its CRO Says They’re Building a Trillion-Dollar Company

As it eyes its next funding round, the management software company Databricks is aiming to net a valuation of up to $175 billion. Last week, Ali Ghodsi, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, said that ...
Reuters

Databricks in talks to raise funds at over $165 billion, The Information reports

June 8 (Reuters) - Data analytics software firm Databricks has discussed raising funds in a round that could begin next month and value it ‌at between $165 billion and $175 billion, The Information ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Databricks CEO Plans to Avoid IPO During Year of Huge Offerings

Databricks, a data software company, plans to sell shares to the public at some point, but won’t tap the public markets this year amid a flurry of planned tech IPOs. The company wants to sell shares ...
techtimes

AI Gateway OpenRouter Raises $113M From Google and NVIDIA to Route Between Their Models

OpenRouter, the New York-based AI infrastructure startup that lets developers route a single API call across 400-plus large language models, closed a $113 million Series B on May 26, 2026 — led by ...
SiliconANGLE

OpenRouter raises $113M to bring order to enterprise AI inference routing

Artificial intelligence inference routing startup OpenRouter Inc. today announced it has raised $113 million in new funding led by CapitalG, Alphabet Inc.’s independent growth fund, to push the ...
Morningstar

OpenRouter Raises $113 Million CapitalG-led Series B as Weekly Volume Explodes to 25T Tokens

NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures join CapitalG, a16z, Menlo Ventures, and others in backing the high-growth AI infrastructure startup ...
Inc

Why Is Databricks Valued at $134 Billion and Headed for a Massive IPO? It Solves Businesses’ Biggest Problem

Arsalan Tavakoli was at his bachelor party in 2013 when Ali Ghodsi, a computer science researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, pulled him aside. The two had become colleagues and friends ...
Crypto Briefing

Reiner Pope: Batch size dramatically impacts AI latency and cost, kv cache is key for autoregressive models, and efficient inference can save resources | Dwarkesh

Reiner Pope is the Founder and CEO of MatX, a startup developing specialized chips for large language models. He previously worked at Google as a Senior Staff Software Engineer, where he trained large ...