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Starcloud announced a $250 million raise at a $2.3 billion valuation to scale its space-based AI data center program. The round follows rapid valuation growth for the Nvidia-backed orbital compute startup.

TechCrunch reported Starcloud's $250 million financing for its orbital data center ambitions, noting constrained heavy-launch availability as a key challenge for deploying large compute satellites.

SpaceNews reported that Nvidia participated in Starcloud's $250 million round backing its orbital data center ambitions, deepening the two companies' relationship around space-based GPU compute.

GeekWire covered Starcloud's $250 million raise and its plan to build a network of data center satellites, highlighting the Nvidia relationship.

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-DSpark, a set of draft models for speculative decoding that reportedly speed up decoding by up to 3.18x while leaving model outputs unchanged.

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in AI data and expert-labor marketplace Mercor as part of a new funding round that would value the company at about $20 billion. The talks were first reported by The Information and picked up widely across business and tech press.