European AI builders who routed workloads to Alibaba Cloud to undercut AWS and Azure pricing just lost their most compelling argument for doing so. Alibaba Cloud raised AI computing and storage prices by up to 34% on March 18, citing surging demand and supply chain costs. The strategic calculus for using Chinese cloud infrastructure now looks fundamentally different.
Digua Robotics has closed a $120 million Series B1 round, bringing total Series A and B financing to $220 million. The company is positioning itself as the common infrastructure layer for the entire robotics industry — not a robot maker, but the platform every robot maker needs.