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From Fugaku
Fujitsu is selling its MONAKA inference CPU into the US server channel from 2027
Nikkei reports that an unnamed major US server maker has already agreed to buy Fujitsu’s MONAKA chip.
Nothing to do now; note it if you are writing a multi-year inference procurement that assumes one supplier.
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In brief
Sakana AI gets Sumitomo’s customer network as a sales channel, with SCSK doing the integration
Sakana AI, the Tokyo model lab, formed an alliance with the trading house Sumitomo Corporation and its systems integrator SCSK on 10 September. In the companies’ announcement, Sakana supplies models, SCSK takes projects from pilot to production, and Sumitomo sells through the subsidiaries and customer relationships it already has. No money, equity or first customer was disclosed. The verdict: a distribution deal with no named customer is not yet a channel, and a named deployment is what to count.
If you sell AI into Japanese finance or manufacturing, you now compete with a model lab that has a distributor.
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Who owns the compute
Mistral raised three billion euros led by Samsung, and a European state took equity
The round values the company above 21 billion euros. Buried in the investor list: the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, taking shares rather than granting money.
If EU residency is a hard constraint in your stack, re-price the assumption that meeting it means accepting a worse model. Do not re-price it on the valuation; re-price it after you benchmark.
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Who owns the compute
Google is paying to keep a Finnish reactor running for 22 years to power four data centres
A 13 billion euro commitment across 2027 and 2028 arrives with 629 MW of new wind, a 94 MW battery, and a power purchase agreement tied to extending the life of Loviisa.
Nothing here adds European capacity you can buy this year. If you are modelling EU-region pricing, assume supply loosens after 2027 rather than before, and do not read the generation figures as capacity numbers.