London-based Vertice, which offers an AI-powered SaaS spend platform, raised a $50M Series C led by Lakestar, taking its total funding to ~$100M

I am old enough to remember when people said Google would have some kind of monopoly on machine learning because it 'had all the data'. Announcing The Stargate Project The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world.