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Odaily Report: Canadian AI model startup Cohere is conducting a large-scale funding round, with a valuation of $20.5 billion, roughly tripling from a year ago. Cohere said on Thursday that it has completed the first tranche of this funding round, with total funding expected to reach up to $5 billion. The company stated that it has received investment commitments from investors including the Canadian government and NVIDIA, in addition to the $600 million investment previously disclosed by European retail giant Schwarz Group. Among them, the Canadian government has agreed to invest up to $1.14 billion in Cohere.Canadian Prime Minister Carney stated that Cohere plans to keep its headquarters in Canada and is expected to build new computing infrastructure in the country by 2030, with an investment of approximately $1.2 billion. If this funding round is successfully completed, it will become the largest private fundraising in Canadian history, far exceeding previous records. Cohere declined to disclose how much of the $5 billion funding target has been finalized, but the Chief Financial Officer said the first tranche has covered "the majority" of it. This valuation does not include the funds raised in this round. (Bloomberg)
据 Sifted 报道，欧洲知名风险投资机构 Index Ventures 于近日宣布完成 20 亿美元新一轮募资，旗下可投资资产总规模由此增至 35 亿美元。本轮募资由三部分构成：4 亿美元种子基金、9 亿美元早期风险基金，以及向现有成长期基金追加的 7 亿美元（该基金规模由 15 亿美元扩大至 22 亿美元）。 Index Ventures 表示，新资金将持续支持创始人"从首轮融资到上市乃至更远"，覆盖欧洲、以色列及美国市场。此次募资背景下，AI 是其核心押注方向，该机构已相继投资 Mistral、Cohere 及前 DeepMind 研究员 David Silver 创立的 Ineffable Intelligence。此前，Index 投资组合中的 Wiz 以320 亿美元被谷歌收购、Figma 完成 IPO、Revolut 完成二级市场股份出售（估值达 1150 亿美元），均为本轮募资提供了有力背书。
Bitcoin mining company HIVE's subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing has signed a three-year sovereign AI cloud infrastructure contract worth approximately $220 million with Bell AI Fabric and Cohere. Under the contract, BUZZ HPC will deploy a cluster containing 2,304 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs at Bell's facility in Merritt, British Columbia.Funding for the Blackwell systems comes from the $115 million convertible note financing completed in April. The deployment is expected to become operational between late 2026 and early 2027, and is projected to add approximately $70 million to the company's current $35 million in annual recurring revenue. Additionally, HIVE has received approval to acquire a 32-megawatt data center in Big Boden, Sweden, and plans to upgrade it to support enterprise-grade AI workloads. (The Block)