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The First AI Loan Backed by Inference Chips, Not GPUs

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Three things builders should know The facility is structured, not drawn in full. It starts at an initial commitment of $100 million and scales with customer demand to a ceiling of $400 million. The headline number is a maximum, not a cheque. The collateral is the story. Security is SambaNova SN50 inference ASICs — purpose-built silicon for running already-trained models — rather than the NVIDIA H100s and B200s that have anchored every major chip-backed AI loan so far. The borrower is young. General Compute is a Boston-based inference cloud founded earlier in 2026, led by chief executive Finn Puklowski, which raised a $15 million seed round in May. The debt facility is more than twenty times the equity raised. The performance claim is the company's own. General Compute says its inference…


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