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TechCrunch AIArticle5d ago

Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO

Simo brings IPO credibility (she led Instacart through a 2023 public offering) and insider OpenAI knowledge to an infrastructure play. The move signals Nscale thinks it's ready to be a public company and wants board-level experience with AI scaling. For investors: executive recruitment this senior usually precedes a financing event. For builders: watch if Nscale's platform expands post-IPO to new verticals.

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TechCrunch AIArticleClaude Watch17d ago

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale

Anthropic's compute spending keeps escalating and each new deal makes the case that model quality is now a capital-intensity race, not just a talent race. Nscale is a less familiar name than Amazon or Google, which suggests Anthropic is diversifying its supplier base to avoid single-vendor lock-in and pricing leverage. For investors, this is another data point that frontier lab economics require infrastructure-scale balance sheets, not startup ones.

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