Dell strikes deal with artificial intelligence startup Imbue

The AI firm has an agreement to buy its hardware up front, a rarity

Dell is supplying Imbue with servers. Photo: Bloomberg

Shirin Ghaffary

Dell Technologies has landed a $150m (€140m) deal to provide computing hardware to artificial intelligence startup Imbue, a win for the technology giant as it looks to grow its footprint in the AI market.

Dell is supplying Imbue with servers to enable the startup to process the vast amount of data needed to develop its AI systems and build models with advanced reasoning capabilities. Imbue, which raised $200m in a recent funding round from firms including Nvidia, is one of a handful of artificial intelligence startups building their own AI foundation models from scratch, an ambitious effort that requires a large volume of computing power.