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Lambda, a privately held AI cloud company, secured a $1 billion delayed draw term loan to purchase more than 30,000 Nvidia GPUs. The fixed-rate facility carries a 6.78% interest rate. The financing underscores growing capital intensity in AI infrastructure as companies race to acquire compute capacity.

Infinigence AI, a Shanghai-based provider of AI cloud infrastructure backed by Chinese tech giants, has filed confidentially for an IPO in Hong Kong seeking to raise several hundred million U.S. dollars. The company is currently valued at 14.3 billion yuan ($2.1 billion). The filing signals growing momentum in China's AI infrastructure sector and reflects investor appetite for cloud computing platforms supporting AI workloads.

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, a new model variant running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs that delivers up to 8x faster token generation than Astra Standard mode. The model is now available through the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. OpenAI optimized the inference software using its own models to take advantage of Blackwell's architecture, with the performance gains particularly beneficial for coding agents and interactive applications that require rapid response cycles.

Nvidia and SoftBank have each completed their final $10 billion investments in OpenAI's funding round, fulfilling their respective $30 billion pledges. The investments represent the conclusion of commitments made as part of OpenAI's March announcement of $122 billion in total funding commitments. The completion of these major capital injections underscores continued institutional confidence in OpenAI's trajectory and AI infrastructure development.