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Vultr CEO J.J. Kardwell. Screenshot via YouTube/Vultr.
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AMD-Backed Vultr Seeks $1 Billion for AI Cloud Push

By Miles Kruppa, Anissa Gardizy and Valida Pau · Mar 25, 2026 6:00am PDT
Vultr, one of the oldest independent cloud providers, is seeking to raise at least $1 billion in new capital so it can compete with a growing list of startups scrambling for cash to meet the surging demand for AI computing power. The company, which is backed by chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, was founded in 2014 and didn’t raise any outside... Vultr, one of the oldest independent cloud providers, is seeking to raise at least $1 billion in...
Sikander Rashid, Brookfield Asset Management's global head of AI infrastructure. Cyril Marcilhacy/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
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Brookfield to Start Cloud Business to Lower Cost of AI

By Miles Kruppa · Dec 31, 2025 6:00am PST
Private-equity firm Brookfield is starting its own cloud business, going up against tech giants like Amazon by arguing it can bring down the costs of developing AI. The firm, which has long invested in infrastructure and energy, is becoming the first major investment firm to try to lease chips inside data centers directly to developers, rather... Private-equity firm Brookfield is starting its own cloud business, going up against tech giants...
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ByteDance Challenges Alibaba’s Reign in China’s AI Cloud Market

By Juro Osawa · Dec 1, 2025 4:00am PST
ByteDance is best known in the U.S. as the owner of TikTok. In China, the tech giant is also becoming known as a major force in cloud computing—so much so that it is now threatening Alibaba Group, long the undisputed king of cloud services in China. In one sign of the intensifying rivalry, executives at Alibaba have started to focus on the... ByteDance is best known in the U.S. as the owner of TikTok. In China, the tech giant is also...
Runpod CEO and cofounder Zhen Lu. Photo courtesy of Runpod.
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Cloud Startup Runpod Raises $100 Million, Says It Turned Down Buyout Offers

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jun 24, 2026 7:00am PDT
By some accounts, the compute crunch of 2026 has become even more dire than the chip crunch of 2023, which saw even venture capital firms becoming quasi-cloud providers temporarily. That’s good news for a subclass of firms that popped up to rent out computing power and help developers run open-source models to power applications. Some people... By some accounts, the compute crunch of 2026 has become even more dire than the chip crunch of...
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Apple to Renew Push for AI That Runs on Devices, Instead of the Cloud

By Aaron Tilley · May 28, 2026 6:00am PDT · 2 comments
At Apple’s annual developer conference next month, the star of the show will be a series of long-delayed artificial intelligence upgrades to the iPhone. But the company is also expected to emphasize what could be an underrated asset in its efforts to catch up in AI: Its ability to run AI models on the billions of Apple devices in circulation. ... At Apple’s annual developer conference next month, the star of the show will be a series of...