Explore the foundational technologies and hardware driving the artificial intelligence boom. From next-generation data centers and custom silicon to advanced networking and energy solutions, discover the deep tech investments building the physical and digital layers that power the AI era.
The FDA granted Noah Labs Vox Breakthrough Device Designation in March 2026. A 5-second daily voice clip can flag worsening heart failure up to 21 days before hospitalization — and the vocal-biomarker field already has its first casualty.
SoftBank's SB Energy filed to raise $5-7B with a $439B backlog and 8.8 GW of contracted AI data center capacity, none of it operating. NVIDIA is guaranteeing construction; OpenAI holds $5.5B of warrants. The tenant-shareholder structure is the story.
Skild AI raised $1.4B at a $14B valuation to scale an omni-bodied robot brain. Its S1 model learns new tasks from a single video, and the Foxconn Blackwell line is the first mass-scale test.
Ten thousand times per second, a neural network decides the voltage on 19 magnetic coils. A control layer for the fusion industry is quietly becoming an AI business.
Meta begins manufacturing its Iris AI chip in September 2026 as part of a plan to double computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027, funded by up to $145 billion in infrastructure spend.
Foundation models now beat the ECMWF ensemble standard on the variables energy operators actually pay for. Aurora 1.5, GenCast and Earth-2 are open, deployed and measurable.
SK Telecom is spinning off its data center and submarine cable businesses into SK Horizon, funded with KRW 3.08 trillion ($2.2B) from KKR and an IMM Investment-Stonebridge consortium. The telecom keeps 51%; institutional capital gets the rest.
SandboxAQ's AQVolt26 trains on 322,656 quantum simulations to rank solid-state battery electrolytes — and a $500M CHIPS award points to where physics-first AI goes next.