Iambic Therapeutics taps Lambda for AI compute to develop the next generation of AI molecular property prediction for drug discovery
Iambic Therapeutics, a CNBC 2025 Disruptor 50 Company developing novel medicines using its AI-driven discovery and development platform, has partnered with Lambda to power its platforms' AI infrastructure for AI driven drug discovery.
Lambda, the GPU cloud company founded by AI engineers, today announced that Iambic Therapeutics, a clinical-stage life science and technology company developing novel medicines using its AI-driven discovery and development platform, has selected Lambda to provide an NVIDIA HGX B200 cluster to support the training of Enchant, its industry-leading model for molecular property prediction.
Iambic’s Enchant is a breakthrough multi-modal transformer model for predicting clinical and preclinical endpoints related to the drug discovery and development process. Enchant enables researchers to determine the viability of new drug molecules and make high-confidence predictions where data is most sparse, helping address the critical real-world challenge of understanding how novel drug candidates may affect a patient while still in the earliest stages of discovery. Iambic’s recently announced Enchant v2 provides accurate predictions for dozens of biological, physiochemical, pharmacokinetic, metabolic, safety, and other properties essential for clinical success.
“With the release of Enchant v2, we demonstrated both the model’s accuracy and scalability and we believe we can rapidly build on these gains through model scale alone,” said Matt Welborn, PhD, Iambic’s VP of Machine Learning. “We are expanding our successful relationship with Lambda to an NVIDIA HGX B200 cluster, which will accelerate this opportunity and the breadth of pre-clinical and clinical endpoints Enchant can predict, increasing the likelihood of a molecules' success in human studies and the efficiency of drug development.”
Enchant’s high-confidence predictions enable multi-parameter optimization for the design of potentially more effective medicines, program prioritization, and the design of clinical trials for the potentially rapid translation of novel medicines. Iambic researchers also demonstrated that in some cases Enchant can be a better predictor of in vivo drug clearance than in vitro experiments – a key advancement as regulators look for drug developers to broaden their use of in silico testing. Today, Enchant is the leading model in the field based on performance benchmarks across diverse molecular property prediction tasks.
“We're thrilled to deepen our partnership with Iambic, a leader in AI-driven drug discovery,” said Robert Brooks IV, Founding Team and VP, Revenue. “By leveraging Lambda's 1-Click Clusters for rapid testing and validation, Iambic was able to seamlessly scale to an NVIDIA HGX B200 cluster to accelerate breakthroughs in life sciences.”
To learn more about Lambda’s cloud offerings for AI training and inference, click here.
About Iambic’s AI-Driven Discovery Platform
The Iambic AI-driven platform was created to address the most challenging design problems in drug discovery, leveraging technology innovations such as Enchant (multimodal transformer model that predicts clinical and preclinical endpoints) and NeuralPLexer (best-in-class predictor of protein and protein-ligand structures). The integration of physics principles into the platform’s AI architectures improves data efficiency and allows molecular models to venture widely across the space of possible chemical structures. The platform enables identification of novel chemical modalities for engaging difficult-to-address biological targets, discovery of defined product profiles that optimize therapeutic window, and multiparameter optimization for highly differentiated development candidates. Through close integration of AI-generated molecular designs with automated chemical synthesis and experimental execution, Iambic completes design-make-test cycles on a weekly cadence.
About Iambic Therapeutics
Iambic is a clinical-stage life-science and technology company developing novel medicines using its AI-driven discovery and development platform. Based in San Diego and founded in 2020, Iambic has assembled a world-class team that unites pioneering AI experts and experienced drug hunters. The Iambic platform has demonstrated delivery of new drug candidates to human clinical trials with unprecedented speed and across multiple target classes and mechanisms of action. Iambic is advancing a pipeline of potential best-in-class and first-in-class clinical assets, both internally and in partnership, to address urgent unmet patient need. Learn more about the Iambic team, platform, pipeline, and partnerships at Iambic.ai
About Lambda
Lambda was founded in 2012 by AI engineers with published research at the top machine learning conferences in the world. Our goal is to become the #1 AI compute platform serving developers across the entire AI development lifecycle. We enable AI engineers to easily, securely and affordably build, test and deploy AI products at scale. Our product portfolio spans from on-prem GPU hardware to hosted GPUs in the cloud. Lambda’s mission is to create a world where access to computation is as effortless and ubiquitous as electricity.
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Lambda and Cologix launch the first NVIDIA HGX B200-Accelerated AI Clusters in Columbus data center
Supermicro’s AI-optimized hardware powers turnkey AI infrastructure for enterprise innovation in the Midwest
Cologix, a leading network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data center company in North America, today announced its collaboration with Lambda, the AI Developer Cloud, to deploy NVIDIA HGX B200-accelerated 1-Click Clusters at Cologix’s COL4 ScalelogixSM data center in Columbus, Ohio. Built on Supermicro’s high-performance, energy-efficient AI solutions, this is the first deployment of its kind in the region delivering enterprise-grade AI compute with simplified access for businesses across the Midwest.
As AI adoption accelerates, organizations are looking for fast, cost-effective ways to support large model training, fine-tuning and inference workloads. After standing up AI infrastructure in Chicago in 2024, this strategic collaboration brings Lambda’s NVIDIA GPU-accelerated 1-Click Clusters™ to Columbus, enabling regional enterprises to spin up high-performance compute infrastructure in seconds—no infrastructure management required.
“Columbus is a thriving hub for AI innovation, from manufacturing to healthcare,” said Robert Brooks IV, Founding Team & VP, Revenue at Lambda. “With Supermicro’s trusted systems and Cologix’s reliable infrastructure, we’re giving Lambda’s customers in the Midwest the fastest path to production-ready AI—and the added flexibility to integrate with hyperscaler environments.”
The launch increases the availability of Lambda’s popular 1-Click Clusters™, which are purpose-built for model training and inference at scale. Combined with Supermicro’s AI-optimized hardware and Cologix’s carrier-dense environment, this deployment brings frictionless access to next-gen AI performance all within a highly secure, compliant data center environment.
Built on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs,1-Click Clusters™ can be self-served or provisioned through Lambda’s flagship GPU Flexible Commitment (GFC) – an innovative compute consumption model that grants organizations access to Lambda’s entire Cloud portfolio, and provides seamless transitions to the next generations of NVIDIA accelerated computing.
“Columbus is one of the fastest-growing digital corridors in the country and this launch brings coastal-level AI infrastructure into the region,” said Chris Heinrich, Chief Revenue Officer of Cologix. “Our collaboration with Lambda and Supermicro gives regional enterprises a powerful edge, combining low-latency access, dense interconnection and ready-to-deploy clusters, giving teams the ability to move faster and scale smarter.”
Cologix is currently the largest colocation and interconnection provider in the area with a portfolio of four data centers spanning a total of 500,000 square feet and 80 MW of power. All four of Cologix’s data centers in Columbus are interconnected with a diverse fiber ring. Additionally, Cologix has Ohio’s most comprehensive carrier hotel in its Columbus data centers as well as an interconnection ecosystem of 50+ unique network and cloud service providers, two public cloud onramps with access to Amazon Web Services® Direct Connect and Google Cloud Interconnect and the Ohio IX internet exchange.
“Supermicro’s collaboration with Lambda and Cologix delivers real-world impact,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO. “Our NVIDIA HGX B200-based hardware enables the highest performance AI workloads in a space- and energy-efficient footprint. Together, we’re bringing those benefits to businesses in the Midwest and beyond.”
Together, Lambda, Supermicro and Cologix are enabling enterprises in healthcare, finance, logistics, retail and manufacturing to accelerate their AI roadmaps without the heavy lift of managing infrastructure. This deployment is part of a broader trend of moving high-performance compute closer to where data is generated and used and reflects Cologix’s continued investment in digital infrastructure across North America.
Learn how to supercharge your AI stack with Lambda’s 1-Click Cluster solutions and tap into Cologix’s latest AI-ready data centers to accelerate your business’ growth at the digital edge.
About Cologix
Cologix powers digital infrastructure with 45+ hyperscale edge data centers and interconnection hubs across 12 North American markets, providing high-density, ultra-low latency solutions for cloud providers, carriers and enterprises. With AI-ready, industry-leading facilities, Cologix offers scalable, flexible and sustainable data center options to help its customers accelerate their business at the digital edge. Cologix provides extensive physical and virtual connections, including Access Marketplace, where customers gain fast, reliable and self-service provisioning for on-demand connectivity. For more information, visit Cologix or follow us on LinkedIn and X.
About Lambda
Lambda was founded in 2012 by AI engineers with published research at the top machine learning conferences in the world. Our GPU cloud and on-prem hardware enables AI developers to easily, securely and affordably build, test and deploy AI products at scale. Lambda’s mission is to accelerate human progress with ubiquitous and affordable access to computation. One person, one GPU.
About Supermicro
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next-generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
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Nixxy NIXX: NASDAQ acquires Leadnova.ai platform from NexGenAI and reports $5.2 Million in May revenue
Nixxy (NASDAQ:NIXX) an AI-powered data and communications infrastructure company, today announced the successful acquisition of the Leadnova.ai platform assets from the NexGenAI suite of companies. Nixxy also reported that it generated approximately $5.2 million in unaudited gross revenue for the month of May 2025 up from approximately $1.4 million in April 2025.
Leadnova.ai Platform Asset Acquisition
Leadnova.ai is a SaaS-based solution designed to support business development through data delivery, sales enablement, outreach automation, and engagement analytics. As part of the asset acquisition, Nixxy will take ownership of the Leadnova.ai domain, front-end and back-end software, automation engines, structured data repositories, and API infrastructure.
The integration of Leadnova.ai into Nixxy's AuralinkAI platform is expected to accelerate Nixxy's AI-enhanced telecom strategy and enable more intelligent, performance-driven enterprise communication services.
"Our strategy is focused on combining infrastructure with automation and AI," said Mike Schmidt, CEO of Nixxy. "Leadnova.ai adds powerful capabilities that align perfectly with our vision to deliver smarter, higher-margin communications services at scale."
May Revenue Performance and Telecom Growth Trajectory
Nixxy generated gross revenues (unaudited) of approximately $5.2 million in May 2025, representing continued traction in its growth and expansion strategy. With additional customer agreements and infrastructure now coming online, Nixxy continues to target a $10 million monthly revenue run rate by August 2025, contingent on continued execution and successful onboarding of new partners.
"We're pleased with the early momentum and the diversity of revenue sources starting to emerge," added Schmidt. "We expect ongoing growth across voice, messaging, and enterprise automation as we scale our network and integrate our AI capabilities."
Further updates will be provided as Nixxy progresses through key execution milestones.
Nixxy Announces Registered Direct Offering
Nixxy today announced the pricing of a registered direct offering for the sale and issuance of up to 846,667 shares of the Company's common stock to a small group of accredited investors at a price per share of $1.50.
The shares of common stock in the registered direct offering (but excluding the securities issued in the planned private placement) were offered pursuant to a "shelf" registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-267470) initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on September 16, 2022, and declared effective by the SEC on September 30, 2022. The offering of the common stock in the registered direct offering was made only by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus describing the terms of the proposed offering was filed with the SEC on May 29, 2025 and is available on the SEC's website located at http://www.sec.gov. Electronic copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus may be obtained, when available, by contacting the Company at 1178 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10001, or by telephone at (877) 708-8878.
About Nixxy, Inc.
Nixxy, Inc. (NASDAQ:NIXX) is a next-generation communications and infrastructure company transforming the telecom landscape through AI-powered platforms, intelligent routing, and enterprise-grade messaging solutions. Anchored by its AuralinkAI platform, Nixxy integrates advanced automation, data analytics, and scalable infrastructure to deliver high-performance voice and messaging services globally. With a focus on operational efficiency, strategic acquisitions, and platform scalability, Nixxy is building a robust telecom network optimized for volume, intelligence, and margin. Nixxy's hybrid approach, combining infrastructure ownership with AI-enhanced service delivery, differentiates it in modern telecom innovation, serving both wholesale and enterprise clients.
Filings and press releases can be found at http://www.nixxy.com/investor-relations.
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Groq’s CEO Jonathan Ross on why AI’s next big shift isn’t about Nvidia
"Right now, we're in the printing press era of AI, the very beginning," says Groq Founder & CEO Jonathan Ross
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Groq Founder CEO Jonathan Ross Says Speed to Deployment Sets Its AI Inference Infrastructure Apart
Groq and Bell Canada partner to build 6 AI inference infrastructure data centers
Groq is official hyperscaler inference provider for Saudi AI datacenter Humain
The race to better compete with AI chip darling Nvidia (NVDA) is well underway. Enter Groq. The company makes what it calls language processing units (LPUs). These LPUs are designed to make large language models run faster and more efficiently, unlike Nvidia GPUs that target training models. Groq’s last capital raise was in August 2024, when it raised $640 million from the likes of BlackRock and Cisco. The company’s valuation at the time stood at $2.8 billion, a fraction of Nvidia’s more than $3 trillion market cap. It currently clocks in at $3.5 billion, according to Yahoo Finance private markets data.
At the helm of Groq is founder and CEO Jonathan Ross. While at Google, Ross designed the custom chips that the tech giant would go on to train its AI models on. Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi sits down on the Opening Bid podcast with Ross to discuss his future plans for Groq. Ross is fresh off a trip with other key tech executives to Saudi Arabia, joining President Donald Trump in forging a deeper tech relationship with the country. Ross begins by sharing with Sozzi the conversations he had on the ground in Saudi Arabia.
Groq Founder CEO Jonathan Ross Says Speed to Deployment Sets Its AI Inference Infrastructure Apart
Groq CEO Jonathan Ross explains how the company differentiates itself from the competition in an interview with Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde. With great insights into how Groq's incredible rate of trajectory enabled their AI-inference platform to close an exclusive partnership with Bell AI Fabric, Canada’s largest sovereign AI infrastructure project. Speed matters in how you build, deploy, and market to be one of the fastest-growing AI companies.
Conduit Raises $36 Million Series A to Scale Use of Stablecoins for Cross-Border Payments
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Dragonfly co-leads $36 million Series A in cross-border payment startup Conduit - The Block
Exclusive: Stablecoin company Conduit raises $36 million from Dragonfly Capital and Altos Ventures - Fortune
Conduit transaction volumes surged 16x in 2024, surpassing $10 billion in annualized payment volume. It will use new funding to expand its geographic reach and increase the range of fiat and digital currencies supported through its innovative real-time global payment rails.
Conduit, a leading cross-border payments platform powered by stablecoins, announced today it closed a $36 million Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Dragonfly and Altos Ventures, with participation from Sound Ventures, Commerce Ventures, DCG, Circle Ventures (the issuer of the USDC stablecoin) and existing investors Helios Digital Ventures, and Portage Ventures.
Conduit’s cross-border payment network seamlessly integrates stablecoins, USD and local currencies, providing businesses with a faster, cheaper, and more reliable alternative to the legacy SWIFT system. Already connected into multiple local banks across North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, Conduit will use the capital to fuel expansion into additional markets and support an even broader range of traditional and digital currencies through its real-time payment rails.
This round of funding comes on the back of Conduit’s exceptional growth, with transaction volumes growing 16x through its platform between 2023 and 2024. To date, Conduit has saved clients over 60,000 hours in settlement times and generated fee savings worth over $55 million. The platform bridges crypto-native infrastructure with traditional finance, offering nearly instant, programmable global transactions with integrated AML, sanctions screening, and transaction monitoring.
Clients choose Conduit for:
- Speed and Efficiency: Unlike payment platforms that rely on slow and disjointed networks of correspondent banks, Conduit has direct partnerships with two dozen banks across the world, enabling transactions to settle in seconds rather than days.
- Broad Geographic Coverage: Conduit natively supports a diverse range of currencies and payment methods, including highly inflationary local currencies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
- Deep Liquidity: Conduit’s robust network of institutional-grade FX providers ensures large transactions can be processed seamlessly without liquidity constraints.
"This fresh capital injection will enable us to accelerate our mission to build the next generation global payments infrastructure, to promote fairer economic opportunities across the world," said Kirill Gertman, Conduit CEO. "Traditional cross-border payment systems do not meet the demands of modern businesses. Conduit’s platform seamlessly bridges the gap between traditional banking and stablecoin technology, offering unparalleled speed, affordability, transparency and reliability."
Conduit’s platform enables nearly instant global transfers across multiple payment rails, including USD-denominated payment networks (SWIFT, ACH, FedWire) and local payment systems throughout Europe, the UK, and countries such as China, Hong Kong, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Nigeria, and Kenya, among others. Businesses in these regions often face restricted access to USD, lack of SWIFT connectivity, limited interoperability between stablecoins and fiat currencies, slow settlement times, high fees, and complex regulatory requirements. While stablecoins can have a significant impact on how businesses can manage their treasuries, most market participants still expect invoices to be settled in fiat currencies, creating a need for seamless interoperability between fiat and digital currencies. Conduit enables clients in those jurisdictions to transition between stablecoins and local currencies in real-time to more efficiently settle commercial invoices.
As part of this investment, Dragonfly Capital’s Rob Hadick will join the Conduit board. "We're thrilled to lead this investment round and support Kirill and his team as they reimagine how money moves across borders. With billions of annual transaction volume already flowing through Conduit’s platform, it has proven there’s a better way to move money globally and that stablecoins are the future of cross-border payments," Hadick stated. "What impressed us most was not just their innovative technology, but their remarkable traction and clear product-market fit. By addressing the real pain points businesses face with international transactions, particularly in emerging markets, Conduit has positioned itself as a critical infrastructure provider for the global economy.”
Founded in 2021, Conduit currently has 57 employees and serves more than 100 clients, experiencing 105% year-over-year client growth. The company plans to expand its product offering into Asia, strengthen its footprint in Mexico, as well as other geographies.
About Conduit
Conduit is a next-generation payment network for businesses that move money across borders. We provide fast, reliable global payments by combining instant local payment rails with the efficiency of stablecoins. With a single API, Conduit connects banks, local payment rails, and blockchains to create a resilient network spanning key markets worldwide — including deep connectivity across Latin America, Africa and Asia. To learn more visit https://conduitpay.com/.
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Airspace Link Launches the Operations Center in AirHub® Portal for Drone Operations
Leading FAA-approved UAS (Drone) Service Supplier Airspace Link of B4UFLY and LAANC, today announced the official launch of the Operations Center in its flagship product AirHub® Portal. Designed to give organizations real-time operational oversight, the Operations Center enables strategic insight, situational awareness, and live tracking of drone and crewed aircraft activity — all in one powerful system.
"The Operations Center transforms AirHub® Portal into a true command center for organizations managing drone operations at scale," said Tyler Dicks, Head of Product at Airspace Link. "From public safety teams and federal agencies to state and local governments and commercial enterprises, we're helping a wide range of users gain the operational clarity they need to deliver safer, smarter, and more coordinated drone operations."
With the new Operate tab activated in AirHub® Portal, users can visualize:
- Active and planned drone operations for the day
- Live crewed aircraft traffic and uncrewed drone activity, with supporting sensor partner integration
- Current weather conditions across mission areas
- B4UFLY airspace briefings
- [Coming Soon] Real-time telemetry from user organizations' own connected drone flights
Airspace Link's new Operations Center in AirHub® Portal delivers a single-pane-of-glass solution for organizations that require coordinated, real-time airspace oversight. Built for flight operations managers, public safety agencies, airfield managers, and state and local authorities, the Operations Center offers a unified, interactive map display that provides a complete common operational picture of all active and planned missions, ensuring safer, more informed, and more efficient decision-making.
Also designed to meet the needs of IT leaders and security professionals, the Operations Center includes robust post-mission analytics, audit trails, and automatic reporting to support regulatory compliance, internal governance, and continuous operational improvement. Critically, Airspace Link safeguards its technology with enterprise-grade security and privacy protocols, backed by SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications — ensuring sensitive operational data is protected by industry-leading standards and rigorous best practices.
At the core of the Operations Center is its open platform architecture, which integrates with a range of airspace awareness data sources, including crewed aircraft ADS-B detection systems from industry leader uAvionix.
"We're proud to partner with Airspace Link in delivering high integrity live aircraft traffic data for the Operations Center," said Cyriel Kronenburg, Vice President for UAS and Aviation Networks from uAvionix, Airspace Link's trusted sensor partner. "This integration ensures organizations have access to a high quality and accurate view of their surrounding airspace on a single pane of glass — a critical component for safe and effective drone operations."
Now available for AirHub® Portal organization accounts, the Operations Center joins Airspace Link's full suite of capabilities – from preflight planning and LAANC authorization to internal operation approvals, crew and asset management, and flight logging. Together, these tools form a comprehensive Drone Operations Management System (DOMS) purpose-built for the needs of modern, connected drone programs.
"Whether you're overseeing a city-wide drone program or scaling enterprise operations, the Operations Center delivers the situational awareness and accountability today's teams demand," Dicks added. "It's about empowering diverse stakeholders with the tools to operate smarter, safer, and with total confidence."
As both an FAA-approved UAS Service Supplier of LAANC and B4UFLY, and a provider of advanced drone operations software, Airspace Link offers one of the only fully integrated Drone Operations Management Systems in the market, eliminating the need to manage multiple systems or vendors.
See It Live at XPONENTIAL 2025
Airspace Link will be exhibiting at XPONENTIAL 2025 in Houston. Visit us at Booth #4320 for a live demonstration of the Operations Center and to explore how AirHub® Portal can elevate your organization's drone operations.
Learn more and book your personalized demo here: https://airspacelink.com/xponential2025
About Airspace Link
Founded in Detroit in 2018, Airspace Link is a leading FAA-approved UAS Service Supplier of LAANC and B4UFLY, creating the digital infrastructure for the safe integration of drones into the national airspace and local communities. As SOC 2 compliant and ISO 27001-certified, Airspace Link's drone operations management system, AirHub® Portal, empowers government entities, commercial fleets, certified drone pilots, and the broader drone industry with the tools needed to enable safe, compliant, and efficient drone operations. For more information about Airspace Link and AirHub® Portal, visit www.airspacelink.com.
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Groq and Bell Canada partner to build 6 AI inference infrastructure data centers
Groq Becomes Exclusive Inference Provider for Bell Canada's Sovereign AI Network
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New data centers across North America expand Groq's network, now serving over 20 million tokens per second
Groq, the pioneer in fast AI inference, today announced an exclusive partnership with Bell Canada to power Bell AI Fabric, the country's largest sovereign AI infrastructure project.
Bell AI Fabric will establish a national AI network across six sites, targeting 500MW of clean, hydro-powered compute. It begins with a 7MW Groq facility in Kamloops, British Columbia, coming online in June.
"As AI moves into production, nations are rethinking where inference runs and who controls it," said Jonathan Ross, CEO and Founder of Groq. "We're building infrastructure that's fast, affordable, and sovereign by design, already powering some of the largest inference deployments in the world."
This month, Groq also brought new data centers online in Houston (DataBank) and Dallas (Equinix), pushing total global network capacity to over 20 million tokens per second.
The momentum reflects rising demand for Groq's LPU-based systems—built for real-time inference with unmatched speed and efficiency. Groq delivers the lowest cost per token without compromise, making large-scale AI viable for governments and enterprises worldwide.
Groq builds fast. Data centers go live in weeks, bringing AI closer to users and giving partners more control over where and how inference runs. Local infrastructure means lower latency, stronger data governance, and faster response times at scale.
"Through Bell AI Fabric, we're building the backbone for Canada's AI economy," said Mirko Bibic, President & CEO, BCE and Bell Canada. "Groq's technology delivers the speed and efficiency our customers need—now, not years from now."
About Groq
Groq is the AI inference platform redefining price performance. Its custom-built LPU and cloud have been specifically designed to run powerful models instantly, reliably, and at the lowest cost per token—without compromise. Over 1.6 million developers and Fortune 500 companies trust Groq to build fast and scale smarter.
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Databricks acquires Neon data for $1billion to deliver serverless postgres for AI Agents and developers
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Databricks, the Data and AI company, announced its intent to acquire Neon, a leading serverless Postgres company. As the $100-billion-plus database market braces for unprecedented disruption driven by AI, Databricks plans to continue innovating and investing in Neon's database and developer experience for existing and new Neon customers and partners.
Neon: An Open, Serverless Foundation for Developers and AI Agents
AI agents are becoming increasingly integral components for modern developers, and Neon is purpose-built to support their agentic workflows. Recent internal telemetry showed that over 80 percent of the databases provisioned on Neon were created automatically by AI agents rather than by humans, underscoring how explosively agentic workloads are growing. These workloads differ from human-driven patterns in three important ways:
- Speed + flexibility: Agents operate at machine speed and traditional database provisioning often becomes a bottleneck — Neon can spin up a fully isolated Postgres instance in 500 milliseconds or less and supports instant branching and forking of not only database schema but also data, so experiments never disturb production.
- Cost proportionality: Agents demand a cost structure that scales precisely with usage — Neon's full separation of compute and storage keeps the total cost of ownership for thousands of ephemeral databases proportional to the queries they actually run.
- Open source ecosystem: Agents expect to leverage the rich Postgres community — Neon is 100 percent Postgres-compatible and works out of the box with popular extensions.
"The era of AI-native, agent-driven applications is reshaping what a database must do," said Ali Ghodsi, Co-Founder and CEO at Databricks. "Neon proves it: four out of every five databases on their platform are spun up by code, not humans. By bringing Neon into Databricks, we're giving developers a serverless Postgres that can keep up with agentic speed, pay-as-you-go economics and the openness of the Postgres community."
Databricks and Neon's Shared Vision
Together, Databricks and Neon will work to remove the traditional limitations of databases that require compute and storage to scale in tandem — an inefficiency that hinders AI workloads. The integration of Neon's serverless Postgres architecture with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform will help developers and enterprise teams efficiently build and deploy AI agent systems. This approach not only prevents performance bottlenecks from thousands of concurrent agents but also simplifies infrastructure, reduces costs and accelerates innovation — all with Databricks' security, governance and scalability at the core.
"Four years ago, we set out to build the best Postgres for the cloud that was serverless, highly scalable, and open to everyone. With this acquisition, we plan to accelerate that mission with the support and resources of an AI giant," said Nikita Shamgunov, CEO of Neon. "Databricks was founded by open source pioneers committed to making it easier for developers to work with data and AI at any scale. Together, we are starting a new chapter on an even more ambitious journey."
Neon's talented team is expected to join Databricks after the transaction closes, and the team brings deep expertise and continuity for Neon's vibrant community. Together, Neon and Databricks will empower organizations to eliminate data silos, simplify architecture and build AI agents that are more responsive, reliable and secure.
We plan to share more at Data + AI Summit in San Francisco, taking place June 9–12.
Details Regarding the Proposed Acquisition
The proposed acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including any required regulatory clearances.
About Neon
Neon was founded in 2021 by a team of experienced database engineers and Postgres contributors with a singular goal: to build a serverless Postgres platform that helps developers build reliable and scalable applications faster, from personal projects to startups, all the way to enterprises.
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Block, Comcast, Condé Nast, Rivian, Shell and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to take control of their data and put it to work with AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on X, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Groq is official hyperscaler inference provider for Saudi AI datacenter Humain
Groq, the pioneer in AI inference, today announced a major global expansion, accelerating its rise as an emerging hyperscaler. With significant new deployments and growing momentum with partners like HUMAIN, Groq continues to set the standard for AI infrastructure speed, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
Groq has been named an official inference provider for HUMAIN, a newly launched AI company headquartered in Saudi Arabia and designed to operate across the full AI value chain. HUMAIN's mission is to transform economies through large-scale AI capabilities, from infrastructure to state-of-the-art models, and Groq's ultra-efficient inference technology will be central to that mission.1.5M+ developers and leading global organizations trust Groq to build AI applications with speed, reliability, & scale.
The announcement builds on Groq's opening of a data center in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, which has been serving traffic since February. It's part of a $1.5 billion commitment from the Kingdom to supercharge AI development in the region and expand Groq's presence in global markets.
Groq prioritizes U.S.-based development for its systems and has scaled rapidly to meet the needs of a global AI ecosystem—filling a strategic void that might otherwise be met by foreign providers. With new data centers coming online across North America this month, Groq has the capacity to serve today's most demanding workloads and continues to expand to meet tomorrow's.
More than 1.5 million developers and leading global organizations now trust Groq to build AI applications with speed, reliability, and scale.
To learn more about Groq's partnership with HUMAIN, visit: https://groq.humain.ai/
About Groq
Groq is the AI inference platform redefining price performance. Its custom-built LPU and cloud have been specifically designed to run powerful models instantly, reliably, and at the lowest cost per token—without compromise. Over 1.5 million developers trust Groq to build fast and scale smarter.
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