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Artificial Intelligence

The labs, the models, and the very real businesses being rebuilt around them.

Why Austin keeps showing up on the AI-chip startup map
AIJun 2

Why Austin keeps showing up on the AI-chip startup map

Dev Okonkwo
The Austin corridor is becoming Texas' data center magnet
AIMay 12

The Austin corridor is becoming Texas' data center magnet

Dev Okonkwo
Colossal Biosciences, Austin's de-extinction decacorn, keeps raising
AIApr 30

Colossal Biosciences, Austin's de-extinction decacorn, keeps raising

Dev Okonkwo
Avoca hits $1B valuation selling AI voice agents to plumbers and HVAC shops
AIApr 27

Avoca hits $1B valuation selling AI voice agents to plumbers and HVAC shops

Dev Okonkwo
Samsung's Taylor fab moves toward making Tesla's next AI chips
AIApr 24

Samsung's Taylor fab moves toward making Tesla's next AI chips

Dev Okonkwo
Google commits $40 billion to three new AI data center hubs in Texas
AIApr 15

Google commits $40 billion to three new AI data center hubs in Texas

Dev Okonkwo

More AI

Saronic raises $1.75B at a $9.25B valuation to build autonomous warships in Texas
AIDev Okonkwo · Mar 31

Saronic raises $1.75B at a $9.25B valuation to build autonomous warships in Texas

The Austin defense startup more than doubled its valuation as the Pentagon leans on cheaper, software-defined naval hardware.

Meta sixfolds its El Paso AI data center bet to $10 billion
AIDev Okonkwo · Mar 26

Meta sixfolds its El Paso AI data center bet to $10 billion

The campus is targeting 1 gigawatt of capacity by 2028 as hyperscalers pour capital into Texas.

AIDev Okonkwo · Feb 23

Circuit pulls $30M angel round to put AI on the factory floor

Silicon Labs veterans bet that AI can capture the institutional know-how walking out the door as experienced workers retire.

Apptronik leans on Google DeepMind's Gemini to give Apollo a brain
AIDev Okonkwo · Feb 18

Apptronik leans on Google DeepMind's Gemini to give Apollo a brain

The Austin robotics maker is building its next humanoids on DeepMind's Gemini Robotics models — and Google is now an investor too.

AIDev Okonkwo · Feb 5

Crusoe and partners pour $15 billion into the Abilene Stargate site

The wind-powered campus is being built to host 400,000 Nvidia GPUs as Stargate scales in West Texas.

Oracle to spend $40B on Nvidia chips to power OpenAI's Texas megacenter
AIDev Okonkwo · Jan 30

Oracle to spend $40B on Nvidia chips to power OpenAI's Texas megacenter

The cloud provider will buy roughly 400,000 GB200 GPUs for the Abilene data center under a 15-year deal.

AIDev Okonkwo · Jan 27

Serve Robotics buys Austin's Diligent, pushing sidewalk delivery into hospitals

The ~$25.7M deal hands Serve the Moxi hospital robot and its first beachhead in indoor mobile manipulation.