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AI-powered continuous integration (CI) platform Blacksmith announced a $66 million Series C funding round led by Sequoia Capital, bringing the company’s valuation to $1 billion; within two years of its founding, its valuation has grown by more than 16 times, its ARR has increased 17-fold, and it has executed over 90 million CI jobs.
Mistral and NVIDIA announced a deepened collaboration, integrating Mistral’s Large 4 model, physics-based modeling pipelines, and NVIDIA’s accelerated computing stack (CUDA-X, Warp, Omniverse) to co-develop AI-native engineering workflows for industries such as aerospace, automotive, and semiconductors. The two parties will jointly release open-source datasets and public evaluation benchmarks, covering the assessment of agent capabilities in physics-informed AI and CAE/EDA use cases.
Google Cloud and NVIDIA have announced that the A5X instances, built on the Vera Rubin architecture, will officially go commercial starting next month, initially available in the United States and later expanding to Europe. The platform integrates NVL72 GPUs, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, the Virgo network, and fourth-generation liquid cooling technology, and is specifically designed for high-density computing workloads such as large-scale reinforcement learning and generative agent inference.
