AI cloud firm Nscale seeks $3.5B pre-IPO financing
Nscale is in talks to raise up to $3.5 billion in pre-IPO financing, according to people familiar with the matter. The company also announced a partnership with Figure to deploy up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform.
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