Sharon AI, an Australian high-performance computing company, said Thursday it had secured up to $500 million in financing from blockchain-based lender USD.AI to scale its GPU infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region. The funds will support the deployment of compute systems used to train and run large artificial intelligence models, including an initial $65 million rollout expected to begin this quarter, the company said. The agreement, per a press release shared with CoinDesk, enables Sharon AI to ...