AI Infrastructure Startups Raise $1.1B in Series B Rounds as Investors Diversify Beyond NVIDIA
MatX secured $500M in Series B funding while Neysa raised $600M, both in February 2026, signaling investor appetite for specialized AI hardware beyond GPU dominance. The funding surge targets training and inference optimization across a diversifying AI hardware stack, with AMD demonstrating quantum-classical compute integration and workload expansion driving parallel growth in CPUs and GPUs.
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