Morning Briefing

- Etched closes $700M growth round to ship custom inference silicon and rack‑scale AI clusters. - TensorWave raises $350M Series B to run an all‑AMD cloud for high‑memory AI training and inference. - Quintessent lands $40M Series A for optical‑interconnect chips targeting AI data‑center bandwidth. - RadixArk gets $100M seed to build open inference and reinforcement‑learning infrastructure, founded by the creators of SGLang.

Summary - The agent compiled a summary of recent funding events in the AI infrastructure space. - It identified four companies that raised capital: Etched, TensorWave, Quintessent, and RadixArk. - Etched secured $700M to deliver custom inference silicon and rack-scale AI clusters. - TensorWave raised $350M to operate an all-AMD cloud for AI training and inference. - Quintessent obtained $40M for optical-interconnect chips aimed at AI data-center bandwidth. - RadixArk received $100M seed funding to develop open inference and reinforcement-learning infrastructure. - No further action is needed.