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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Blackstone expands AI compute financing via BXN1, downplays debt fears

Blackstone, led by Jas Khaira and its new AI hub Blackstone N1 (BXN1), is aggressively financing AI compute — from a reported $5 billion commitment to Crux AI to large loans to neoclouds including a $2.3 billion deal with CoreWeave and co-leading a $10 billion facility for Firmus — while Khaira says fears about AI buildout debt are overblown despite recent market jitters and rising interest rates. He highlighted Blackstone’s focus on compute financing, flexible capital structures, and using customer contracts and GPUs as collateral to underwrite large credit deals.

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MODELS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Elorian releases Glimpse, a visual-reasoning model with a "visual scratch space"

Elorian, a Palo Alto startup that raised a $55M seed round, announced Glimpse as a research preview with API access and a waitlist for chat; the model repeatedly re-inspects images during reasoning using a mechanism it calls a "visual scratch space" (e.g., crop/zoom, frame selection, code measurements). Elorian says Glimpse was trained on a few hundred GPUs, is substantially smaller than frontier systems, is priced at $0.60 per million tokens in and $3 per million tokens out, and—according to the company—outperforms GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning on its benchmarks.

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