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Google has expanded its eighth-generation TPU line with TPU 8tx, for confidential inference and small-scale training, and TPU 8i Max, a dual-chip package for long-context inference. It also open-sourced TorchTPU and TPU Sync. Availability dates for the new chips were not given.
Generative-media inference platform Fal has raised a $1.3 billion Series F led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $16 billion valuation, double its April mark. Nvidia, Sound Ventures, HOF Capital and T. Rowe Price participated, and Fal says the money will fund compute and hiring.
Bengaluru-based Simplismart has closed a $14 million Series B led by Dallas Venture Capital, with NVIDIA, Accel, Shastra VC and Micromax participating. The round was the largest AI deal in a week when Indian startups raised about $130 million overall, and underlines investor appetite for inference infrastructure.
