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      "Oracle",
      "OpenAI",
      "SoftBank",
      "MGX"
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    "date": "2025-01-21",
    "description": "$500B AI infrastructure investment plan — largest single AI infrastructure commitment in history. OpenAI/Oracle/SoftBank partnership builds datacenter campuses across the US over 4 years. 5.5 GW total across five sites announced Sep 2025.",
    "category": "mega_project",
    "source": "https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-openai-and-softbank-form-stargate-2025-jan-21"
  },
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    "id": "meta-hyperion-200b",
    "deal_name": "Meta Hyperion (Louisiana)",
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    "type": "infrastructure_investment",
    "investors": [
      "Meta Platforms"
    ],
    "date": "2024-12-04",
    "description": "Meta's $200B Hyperion project in Richland Parish, Louisiana — one of the largest single AI infrastructure projects in history. Massive AI training campus for Llama and future Meta AI models.",
    "category": "mega_project",
    "source": "https://engineering.fb.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "saudi-transcendence-100b",
    "deal_name": "Project Transcendence (Saudi PIF + Google)",
    "amount_usd": 100000000000,
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    "investors": [
      "Saudi Arabia PIF",
      "Google"
    ],
    "date": "2025-05-14",
    "description": "$100B sovereign AI infrastructure investment in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province — largest non-US AI datacenter project.",
    "category": "sovereign_fund",
    "source": "https://blog.google"
  },
  {
    "id": "uae-g42-1-5b",
    "deal_name": "Microsoft Investment in G42",
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    "investors": [
      "Microsoft"
    ],
    "date": "2024-04-22",
    "description": "Microsoft's $1.5B strategic investment in UAE AI company G42, gaining a board seat and Azure partnership for Middle East AI infrastructure.",
    "category": "strategic_investment",
    "source": "https://blogs.microsoft.com"
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    "id": "openai-40b-oct-2024",
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    "investors": [
      "Thrive Capital",
      "Microsoft",
      "NVIDIA",
      "SoftBank",
      "Coatue"
    ],
    "date": "2024-10-02",
    "description": "OpenAI's $6.6B funding round at $157B post-money valuation. Largest single VC round in AI history at the time.",
    "category": "vc_round",
    "source": "https://openai.com"
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    "id": "openai-40b-softbank-2025",
    "deal_name": "OpenAI + SoftBank $40B Funding",
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    "type": "vc_round",
    "investors": [
      "SoftBank",
      "Microsoft",
      "Oracle",
      "MGX"
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    "date": "2025-03-26",
    "description": "$40B funding round led by SoftBank, valuing OpenAI at $300B. Linked to Stargate project infrastructure investment.",
    "category": "vc_round",
    "source": "https://www.softbank.jp"
  },
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    "id": "xai-10b-2025",
    "deal_name": "xAI $10B Round (Feb 2025)",
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    "investors": [
      "Sequoia",
      "a16z",
      "Valor Equity",
      "Vy Capital",
      "Morgan Stanley"
    ],
    "date": "2025-02-18",
    "description": "xAI's $10B funding round at $75B valuation. Funding for Memphis supercluster expansion to 300,000 GPUs.",
    "category": "vc_round",
    "source": "https://x.ai"
  },
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    "id": "xai-series-d-2025",
    "deal_name": "xAI $6B Series D",
    "amount_usd": 6000000000,
    "type": "vc_round",
    "investors": [
      "Sequoia",
      "a16z",
      "Valor",
      "Kingdom Holding Co."
    ],
    "date": "2024-12-07",
    "description": "xAI's $6B Series D round at $45B post-money valuation. Used for Colossus supercomputer buildout in Memphis.",
    "category": "vc_round",
    "source": "https://x.ai"
  },
  {
    "id": "anthropic-series-e-2025",
    "deal_name": "Anthropic $15B Round",
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    "type": "vc_round",
    "investors": [
      "Amazon",
      "Google",
      "Salesforce",
      "Lightspeed"
    ],
    "date": "2025-03-27",
    "description": "Anthropic's $15B funding round at $185B valuation. Amazon led with $8B additional investment. Funds Claude model training and infrastructure.",
    "category": "vc_round",
    "source": "https://www.anthropic.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "anthropic-amazon-8b",
    "deal_name": "Amazon Additional $8B Anthropic Investment",
    "amount_usd": 8000000000,
    "type": "strategic_investment",
    "investors": [
      "Amazon"
    ],
    "date": "2024-11-22",
    "description": "Amazon's additional $8B investment in Anthropic, bringing total Amazon investment to $18B. Anthropic commits to AWS Trainium for training.",
    "category": "strategic_investment",
    "source": "https://www.aboutamazon.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "coreweave-7-5b-debt-2025",
    "deal_name": "CoreWeave $7.5B Debt Facility",
    "amount_usd": 7500000000,
    "type": "debt_financing",
    "investors": [
      "Blackstone",
      "Magnetar",
      "Carlyle",
      "BlackRock",
      "PIMCO"
    ],
    "date": "2025-05-14",
    "description": "CoreWeave's $7.5B debt facility secured by NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Largest GPU-backed debt financing in history. Funds datacenter expansion.",
    "category": "debt_financing",
    "source": "https://www.coreweave.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "coreweave-series-c-1-1b",
    "deal_name": "CoreWeave $1.1B Series C Extension",
    "amount_usd": 1100000000,
    "type": "vc_round",
    "investors": [
      "Coatue",
      "NVIDIA",
      "Altimeter",
      "Lykos"
    ],
    "date": "2024-08-01",
    "description": "CoreWeave's $1.1B Series C extension at $19B valuation. NVIDIA's strategic investment in GPU cloud partner.",
    "category": "vc_round",
    "source": "https://www.coreweave.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "coreweave-series-d-2025",
    "deal_name": "CoreWeave $1.2B Series D",
    "amount_usd": 1200000000,
    "type": "vc_round",
    "investors": [
      "NVIDIA",
      "Blackstone",
      "Magnetar",
      "Coatue"
    ],
    "date": "2025-11-15",
    "description": "CoreWeave's $1.2B Series D at $35B valuation as part of IPO preparation. Funding GB200 NVL72 deployments.",
    "category": "vc_round",
    "source": "https://www.coreweave.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "mistral-600m-2025",
    "deal_name": "Mistral AI €600M Round",
    "amount_usd": 640000000,
    "type": "vc_round",
    "investors": [
      "General Catalyst",
      "Lightspeed",
      "Bpifrance",
      "Goldman Sachs"
    ],
    "date": "2025-02-10",
    "description": "Mistral AI's €600M funding round at €6B valuation. Europe's leading open-weight AI model company.",
    "category": "vc_round",
    "source": "https://mistral.ai"
  },
  {
    "id": "cohere-500m-2025",
    "deal_name": "Cohere $500M Round",
    "amount_usd": 500000000,
    "type": "vc_round",
    "investors": [
      "CPP Investments",
      "PSP",
      "Salesforce",
      "NVIDIA"
    ],
    "date": "2025-04-15",
    "description": "Cohere's $500M round at $5.5B valuation. Enterprise-focused AI company with Canadian roots.",
    "category": "vc_round",
    "source": "https://cohere.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "together-ai-305m",
    "deal_name": "Together AI $305M Series B",
    "amount_usd": 305000000,
    "type": "vc_round",
    "investors": [
      "Prosperity7 Ventures",
      "Salesforce Ventures",
      "General Catalyst",
      "NVIDIA"
    ],
    "date": "2024-11-14",
    "description": "Together AI's $305M Series B at $3.3B valuation. Open-source AI cloud platform for fine-tuning and inference.",
    "category": "vc_round",
    "source": "https://www.together.ai"
  },
  {
    "id": "lambda-labs-480m",
    "deal_name": "Lambda $480M Series D",
    "amount_usd": 480000000,
    "type": "vc_round",
    "investors": [
      "SGW Capital",
      "Andra Capital",
      "T. Rowe Price",
      "Google Ventures"
    ],
    "date": "2025-02-18",
    "description": "Lambda Labs' $480M Series D at $4B+ valuation. GPU cloud provider expanding infrastructure for AI startups.",
    "category": "vc_round",
    "source": "https://lambdalabs.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "crusoe-3-4b",
    "deal_name": "Crusoe Energy Systems $3.4B Funding",
    "amount_usd": 3400000000,
    "type": "strategic_investment",
    "investors": [
      "Founders Fund",
      "Climate Capital",
      "Lowercarbon Capital",
      "Tomas Tugendheim"
    ],
    "date": "2025-10-15",
    "description": "Crusoe's $3.4B funding round for stranded-energy-powered AI datacenter expansion. Includes debt and equity components.",
    "category": "strategic_investment",
    "source": "https://crusoeenergy.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "character-ai-google-deal",
    "deal_name": "Character.ai Google Licensing Deal",
    "amount_usd": 2500000000,
    "type": "ma_licensing",
    "investors": [
      "Google"
    ],
    "date": "2024-08-02",
    "description": "Google's $2.5B licensing deal with Character.ai, acquiring talent and model technology. Alternative to full acquisition.",
    "category": "ma_licensing",
    "source": "https://blog.google"
  },
  {
    "id": "inflection-microsoft-deal",
    "deal_name": "Inflection AI Microsoft Talent Deal",
    "amount_usd": 650000000,
    "type": "ma_licensing",
    "investors": [
      "Microsoft"
    ],
    "date": "2024-03-19",
    "description": "Microsoft's $650M deal with Inflection AI, licensing models and hiring co-founders Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan for Microsoft AI.",
    "category": "ma_licensing",
    "source": "https://blogs.microsoft.com"
  },
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    "id": "adept-amazon-deal",
    "deal_name": "Adept Amazon Talent Acquisition",
    "amount_usd": 400000000,
    "type": "ma_licensing",
    "investors": [
      "Amazon"
    ],
    "date": "2024-06-14",
    "description": "Amazon's ~$400M deal with Adept AI, licensing technology and hiring co-founder David Luan and key team members for AGI org.",
    "category": "ma_licensing",
    "source": "https://www.aboutamazon.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "perplexity-500m-2025",
    "deal_name": "Perplexity AI $500M Round",
    "amount_usd": 500000000,
    "type": "vc_round",
    "investors": [
      "IVP",
      "NEA",
      "SoftBank",
      "NVIDIA"
    ],
    "date": "2025-04-23",
    "description": "Perplexity AI's $500M round at $14B valuation. AI-powered search and answer engine.",
    "category": "vc_round",
    "source": "https://www.perplexity.ai"
  },
  {
    "id": "meta-infrastructure-2025",
    "deal_name": "Meta $60-65B AI Infrastructure Spend (2025)",
    "amount_usd": 65000000000,
    "type": "infrastructure_investment",
    "investors": [
      "Meta Platforms"
    ],
    "date": "2025-01-24",
    "description": "Meta's announced $60-65B capital expenditure for 2025, primarily for AI infrastructure including datacenters and GPUs. Includes Hyperion (Louisiana) campus.",
    "category": "capex",
    "source": "https://investor.fb.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "microsoft-80b-2025",
    "deal_name": "Microsoft $80B AI Infrastructure Spend (FY2025)",
    "amount_usd": 80000000000,
    "type": "infrastructure_investment",
    "investors": [
      "Microsoft"
    ],
    "date": "2025-01-03",
    "description": "Microsoft's announced $80B AI infrastructure spending for FY2025, building datacenters for OpenAI training and Azure AI services.",
    "category": "capex",
    "source": "https://blogs.microsoft.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "google-infrastructure-75b",
    "deal_name": "Google $75B Capex (2025)",
    "amount_usd": 75000000000,
    "type": "infrastructure_investment",
    "investors": [
      "Alphabet / Google"
    ],
    "date": "2025-02-04",
    "description": "Google's announced $75B capital expenditure for 2025, primarily for AI infrastructure including TPU production and datacenter expansion.",
    "category": "capex",
    "source": "https://abc.xyz"
  },
  {
    "id": "amazon-infrastructure-100b",
    "deal_name": "Amazon $100B+ AI Capex (2025-2026)",
    "amount_usd": 100000000000,
    "type": "infrastructure_investment",
    "investors": [
      "Amazon"
    ],
    "date": "2025-02-06",
    "description": "Amazon's announced $100B+ AI infrastructure spending across 2025-2026, for AWS datacenter expansion, Trainium chip development, and Anthropic partnership.",
    "category": "capex",
    "source": "https://www.aboutamazon.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "softbank-vision-ai",
    "deal_name": "SoftBank AI Infrastructure Commitment",
    "amount_usd": 40000000000,
    "type": "strategic_investment",
    "investors": [
      "SoftBank Group"
    ],
    "date": "2025-01-21",
    "description": "SoftBank's $40B commitment to AI infrastructure as part of Stargate project and broader AI investment strategy.",
    "category": "sovereign_fund",
    "source": "https://www.softbank.jp"
  },
  {
    "id": "scale-ai-1b-2025",
    "deal_name": "Scale AI $1B Series F",
    "amount_usd": 1000000000,
    "type": "vc_round",
    "investors": [
      "Meta",
      "NVIDIA",
      "Amazon",
      "Coatue",
      "Founders Fund"
    ],
    "date": "2025-05-15",
    "description": "Scale AI's $1B Series F at $29B valuation. AI data infrastructure company powering training data for frontier models.",
    "category": "vc_round",
    "source": "https://scale.com"
  },
  {
    "id": "samsung-south-korea-sovereign",
    "deal_name": "South Korea Sovereign AI Fund",
    "amount_usd": 3000000000,
    "type": "sovereign_fund",
    "investors": [
      "South Korean Government",
      "Samsung",
      "Naver"
    ],
    "date": "2024-09-01",
    "description": "South Korea's $3B sovereign AI investment fund for domestic AI infrastructure, chip development, and HyperCLOVA X training.",
    "category": "sovereign_fund",
    "source": "https://www.msit.go.kr"
  },
  {
    "id": "india-ai-mission",
    "deal_name": "IndiaAI Mission",
    "amount_usd": 1250000000,
    "type": "sovereign_fund",
    "investors": [
      "Government of India (MeitY)"
    ],
    "date": "2024-03-07",
    "description": "India's $1.25B IndiaAI Mission — sovereign AI compute infrastructure, GPU procurement, and AI skill development across the country.",
    "category": "sovereign_fund",
    "source": "https://www.meity.gov.in"
  }
]