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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)