- Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo has joined the board of AI infrastructure startup Nscale while continuing as a part-time adviser to OpenAI.
- The move adds a senior operator to a neocloud provider competing for capacity contracts in an increasingly capital-intensive market.
- It also illustrates how tightly model labs and their infrastructure suppliers remain intertwined at the governance level — a pattern investors should track as capacity contracts scale into the tens of billions. *URL behind paywall.*
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