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AI Infrastructure & Chips

The compute layer: AI chips, inference platforms, GPU clouds, and model-serving infrastructure.

66/100momentum · Heating
87tracked companies
$1.4Tcombined valuation
$81Bcapital · 90d (23 deals)
$148Bcapital · 1y (69 deals)
56new entrants · 1y
+9%median secondary vs round (30 marks)

Momentum components — 4/4 computable

Funding acceleration100
Deal velocity59
News heat14
Secondary temp59

Components that cannot be computed are dropped and the weights renormalize — never faked to neutral.

Capital by quarter — disclosed rounds

24Q425Q125Q225Q325Q426Q126Q226Q3

Undisclosed amounts count as zero capital; deals still count.

#CompanyValuationSecondary vs RoundLast Round
1 Anthropic $1.0T as of 2026-Q3 no mark 2026-07-22
2 Crusoe Energy Systems $30B as of 2026-03 +101.8% 2025-10-23
3 VAST Data $30B as of 2026-Q2 no mark 2026-04-22
4 Fluidstack $18B as of 2026-04 +88.8% 2024-12-01
5 Fireworks AI $18B as of 2026-Q3 +109.0% 2026-07-15
6 Bitmain $15B as of 2018-Q3 +34.6% 2018-08-06
7 Nscale $15B as of 2026-03 no mark 2025-06-01
8 Scale AI $14B as of 2025-Q2 -37.9% 2025-06-12
9 Baseten $13B as of 2026-06 +517.8% 2026-06-18
10 SambaNova $11B as of 2026-Q3 no mark 2026-07-08
11 Switch $11B as of 2022-Q4 no mark 2022-12-06
12 Firmus Technologies $11B as of 2026-08-07 no mark 2026-08-07

Methodology. Emerging Spaces groups the tracked private-company roster into curated thematic spaces and scores each space's momentum 0–100 from four disclosed-data components: trailing-90-day capital vs the prior 90 days (40%), deal-count acceleration on the same windows (25%), news activity per tracked company over 30 days (20%), and the median secondary-market premium to last round across the space's marked names (15%). Components that cannot be computed are dropped and the weights renormalize — the basis is disclosed per space. Quarterly trends derive from dated, disclosed rounds; undisclosed amounts count as zero capital. An attention map of disclosed activity — not a prediction, not investment advice.