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Grab 13 billion! The AI infrastructure unicorn invested by Nvidia has raised funds again
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Source: zhidx.com
Compiled by Zhidongzhi | Edited by Eggplant | Cheng Qian Zhidongxi reported on August 7 that today, Australian AI infrastructure unicorn Firmus announced that the company's US$2 billion (approximately RMB 13.6 billion) strategic equity financing has been fully subscribed. Existing investors Coatue and Nvidia will continue to participate in the investment, and Jane Street, a fund and quantitative trading company under Blackstone, has become a new investor. ▲ Firmus officially announced 2 billion equity financing (Source: Firmus) Firmus currently mainly designs, builds and operates "AI factories" for AI training and reasoning. The company's core product, HyperCube, integrates power supply, liquid cooling and server racks into a modular infrastructure. In addition, the company also provides GPU computing power to customers through the GPU public cloud computing service Firmus AI Cloud. Firmus was founded in Australia in 2019 by Oliver Curtis, Tim Rosenfield and Jonathan Levee. The company was early engaged in the cryptocurrency and high-performance computing infrastructure business, and later shifted its business focus to AI data centers and began to expand AI factory deployment in the Asia-Pacific region in 2025. ▲The founders of Firmus, from left to right are Tim Rosenfield, Oliver Curtis, and Jonathan Levee (Source: Firmus) The three founders of Firmus have different divisions of labor. Currently, Curtis and Rosenfeld serve as co-CEOs, and Levy is responsible for research and development. Curtis has experience in finance and engineering, while Rosenfeld is mainly involved in Firmus operations and project implementation. This is not the first time Nvidia has invested in Firmus. In April this year, Firmus announced that it had received US$505 million (approximately RMB 3.4 billion) in strategic equity investment, with Coatue leading the investment and Nvidia participating. After the completion of this round of financing, Fir