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Axe Compute Announces Over $1.3B in New Contracts

Axe Compute announced over $1.3 billion in new contracts across the U.S. and Europe, surpassing its 2026 goal of $1 billion and signaling strong demand for its design-deploy-own-operate AI infrastructure. The deals, secured through the Axe Compute Build program, expand its global footprint with large-scale, fully managed GPU capacity and AI environments for enterprises.

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Thinking Machines Inkling Open-Weights AI for Enterprise

Thinking Machines Lab unveiled Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight model led by Mira Murati, designed for enterprise customization with downloadable weights and a Tinker platform for fine-tuning; it uses a mixture-of-experts architecture to balance efficiency and task-specific performance while signaling uncertainty. The company positions Inkling as a flexible alternative to closed models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, and as a competitive option against Chinese open models.

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