Capital
AI infrastructure deals: funding rounds, acquisitions, data-center investments, joint ventures and major infrastructure projects.
| Company | Deal type | Value | Investors / parties | Location | Announced | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helix Digital Infrastructure | Strategic investment | $1 billion | Samsung Electronics; Samsung C&T; Samsung SDS; Samsung SDI; Samsung Life Insurance; Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance | Global | 29 September 2026 | Samsung Global Newsroom → |
| Nscale | Pre-IPO convertible financing | $3.36 billion | Third Point; NVIDIA; Apollo-managed funds; Citadel; Hudson Bay Capital; Abu Dhabi Investment Council; 8090 Industries and others | United Kingdom | 25 September 2026 | Nscale → |
| Akamai / Anthropic | Multi-year cloud infrastructure agreement | $11.6 billion | Anthropic; Akamai Technologies | United States | 24 September 2026 | Akamai → |
| Verda | Series B and additional funding | $189 million | Emergence Capital; MUFG Innovation Partners; Supermicro; Varma; Lifeline Ventures; ENDUR; 6 Degrees Capital; byFounders; Tesi and others | Finland | 22 September 2026 | Verda → |
| Crusoe | Series F funding | $3.9 billion | Atreides Management; Mubadala Capital; Valor Equity Partners; Founders Fund; GIC; NVIDIA; Qatar Investment Authority; Radical Ventures; TPG | United States | 17 September 2026 | Crusoe → |
| Nebius Group | Convertible senior notes | $5.75 billion | Qualified institutional buyers | Amsterdam / global | 24 August 2026 | Nebius → |
| Meta Hyperion | Data-center joint venture | Approximately $27 billion total development cost | Blue Owl Capital funds; Meta | Richland Parish, Louisiana | 21 October 2025 | Meta → |
Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia has raised $255.5 million for his cybersecurity startup Armadin, attaining a post-money valuation of $2.5 billion. The enterprise deploys swarms of autonomous artificial intelligence agents to evaluate vulnerabilities and bolster corporate security posture.
Cloud infrastructure provider GMI Cloud has secured $668 million in new capital. The financing round comprises a mixture of equity investment and a debt facility.
Chinese internet group Tencent has reportedly contracted to access 100,000 GPUs through Oracle's cloud infrastructure. The transaction provides the Chinese company with computational access to high-end processors that are barred from direct export to mainland China under current trade controls. The arrangement underlines how cloud-leasing models are being leveraged to navigate international semiconductor trade restrictions.
Orbital computing startup Satlyt has secured $8 million in funding to develop an open software platform capable of deploying artificial intelligence workloads on satellites. Established by an alumnus of SpaceX and Google, the firm intends to provide a broadly compatible operating environment across diverse spacecraft fleets. This architecture is positioned as an open alternative to vertically integrated space systems.
Artificial intelligence startup Flow Engineering has reached a valuation of $750 million after securing capital from Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia. The enterprise focuses on deploying AI agents to assist in hardware engineering workflows, with Roelof Botha joining the board as an angel investor.
Voice synthesis developer ElevenLabs has doubled its valuation to $22 billion following a secondary employee share sale. The $300 million liquidity tender was co-led by asset managers Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has secured a $1.2 billion contract with cloud infrastructure provider Vultr to deliver AMD Helios AI Rack systems. The hardware, which incorporates purpose-built HPE scale-up networking switches, will be rolled out across Vultr's data centres in the United States.
DataBank has acquired a Minneapolis data centre facility from Mapletree Industrial Trust after leasing the premises for a decade. The transaction was finalised after the colocation provider decided to exercise a contractual purchase option. The deal transitions the long-term operational site into DataBank's directly owned property portfolio.
AMD has struck an agreement to acquire generative artificial intelligence start-up World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at $8.2 billion. As part of the deal, co-founder and chief executive Fei-Fei Li will join the semiconductor firm as an executive vice president and chief scientist. The substantial purchase bolsters the chipmaker's capabilities in generative world models as it competes across the AI ecosystem.
Artificial intelligence startup EliseAI has secured $350 million in fresh capital in a financing round supported by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. The capital injection has doubled the business's market valuation to $4 billion within a twelve-month span. The deal highlights continued venture capital appetite for established enterprise AI platforms.
Advanced Micro Devices has agreed an 8.2-billion-dollar deal to acquire World Labs, a spatial artificial intelligence company established two years ago by Fei-Fei Li. The transaction supplies the semiconductor firm with a dedicated software division to bolster its positioning against rival hardware vendors.
OpenAI is reportedly in negotiations to secure $30bn in fresh financing, a transaction that would value the company at $1.4tn. The prospective capital injection is expected to mark the organisation's final private funding round prior to an anticipated initial public offering in 2027.
OpenAI is reportedly in discussions to secure $30bn in fresh funding at an overall valuation of $1.4tn. The capital injection is expected to serve as the generative AI pioneer's final private investment round prior to a delayed initial public offering scheduled for 2027.
Samsung has committed $1 billion to Helix Digital Infrastructure, a dedicated platform launched by private equity firm KKR to support hyperscaler demand. The funding builds on more than $10 billion in capital previously earmarked for the venture's global expansion.
Meta has agreed to procure artificial intelligence compute capacity across data centres operated by Firmus in Southeast Asia. The commitment broadens the existing infrastructure arrangement established between the two firms in Australia.
Anthropic has incorporated catastrophic risks to humankind within the risk disclosures of its initial public offering documentation, warning that an uncontrolled model could endanger society and terminate its commercial operations. Even with the inclusion of severe warnings, investors continue to target a potential two-trillion-dollar valuation for the artificial intelligence venture.
Leaked documentation linked to Anthropic's public offering preparations highlights severe cautionary warnings regarding existential threats stemming from artificial intelligence. The material informs prospective backers of catastrophic hazards alongside standard financial disclosures.
Draft documentation for Anthropic's proposed initial public offering reveals substantial financial losses alongside governance structures intended to preserve founder control. The disclosures specifically highlight potential catastrophic hazards tied to advanced model development even as the business targets a valuation of two trillion dollars.
AI chip designer SiMa.ai has completed a $150m investment round that values the company at $1.45bn. The funding round includes participation from Dell Technologies, J.P. Morgan, and the State of Michigan to support the rollout of hardware built for physical artificial intelligence.
Samsung Electronics and five of its affiliate companies are investing $1 billion into Helix, an AI infrastructure firm founded by private equity group KKR. The funding round expands upon earlier support from Nvidia as the South Korean technology conglomerate seeks to grow its footprint in worldwide artificial intelligence hardware networks.