Santa Clara–based d-Matrix closed a $275 million Series C round at a $2 billion valuation to expand its full-stack AI inference platform, which combines Corsair accelerators, JetStream networking and Aviator software for large language model serving. The oversubscribed round, led by a global consortium including BullhoundCapital, Triatomic Capital and Temasek with participation from QIA, EDBI and Microsoft’s M12, will fund global deployments and roadmap advances such as 3D memory stacking to deliver up to 10× faster, more energy‑efficient inference than GPU-based systems. ([theaiinsider.tech](https://theaiinsider.tech/2025/11/29/d-matrix-announces-275m-in-funding-to-power-the-age-of-ai-inference/))
OpenAI, Anthropic, Block and major cloud providers are co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to steward open, interoperable standards for AI agents.
Founding members created the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to fund and govern open standards like MCP, goose and AGENTS.md for interoperable agentic AI.
Microsoft pledged $23 billion in new AI investments, led by a $17.5 billion India program and a $5.4 billion Canada program to build data centers, hyperscale cloud and AI skills.
Microsoft will invest US$17.5 billion over four years to expand AI and cloud infrastructure, sovereign cloud solutions and AI skilling programs across India.
Microsoft adds Grok 3 to Azure AI Foundry platform

