Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal
TechCrunch | 17.07.2026 19:00
General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has landed a $400 million loan from Upper90, a tech investment firm. It might be the first deal to put up inference-specific chips as collateral — chips built to run already-trained AI models quickly and efficiently, rather than the more expensive chips used to build the models in the first place.
