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AI infrastructure became the week's dominant funding battleground

July 2026

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AI Infrastructure Attracts Massive Capital

The week's largest commitments targeted AI's physical and technical backbone: MGX assembled a $49 billion fund, Together AI raised $800 million for open-model infrastructure, and Switch pursued about $2 billion for data centers. Together, these deals show capital moving from model development toward the constrained systems needed to run AI at scale.

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