Funding Raises: #Databricks $10B Series J & $5.25B Debt; #Innovaccer $654.1M Series F+; #InsilicoMedicine $601.3M Series C; #DataDirectNetworks $300M Private Equity; #HippocraticAI $276M Series B+; #Instabase $100M Series D;
#Highnote $90M Series B; #Render $80M Series C

DDN supplying storage for xAI’s Colossus supercomputer – Blocks and Files DDN storage is being used in an expansion phase of Elon Musk’s xAI Colossus supercomputer.

DDN has definitely aligned itself with xAI, among our other big players in HPC and AI. I have worked on numerous HPC systems, xAI is easily the biggest. #xAI #DDN #DataDirectNetworks #AI #nvidia #HPC #BigData #Exascaler #Grok #Lustre #Infinia #Petabyte #NVMe

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Blackstone invests $300M in DDN to boost AI storage business – Blocks and Files Private equity firm Blackstone is investing $300 million in privately held DDN, valuing the company at $5 billion.

It seems I have an opportunity to be on the bleeding edge of AI storage! #DDN #HPC #AI #DataDirectNetworks #infiniband #nvidia #lustre #exascaler #scalecomputing #infinia #gpfs

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