Gimlet Labs, an applied AI research and product company, has raised $300 million in a Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its valuation to $2 billion.

 

The funding comes shortly after the company raised $92 million in a previous Series A round and includes participation from other venture capital firms, including Sapphire Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Emergence, Factory, Hudson River Trading, and Wing Ventures, among others.

 

 

With these funds, Gimlet Labs plans to expand its computing and data center capacity, particularly as the AI industry sees rapid adoption. As the industry continues to grow, power is increasingly emerging as a critical bottleneck that could hinder further growth.

 

According to Gimlet Labs, AI data centers consumed approximately 18 GW of power in 2025, with this figure expected to triple by 2030. At this rate, existing resources may eventually be insufficient to meet growing demand, which is why the Gimlet Labs team plans to expand its AI infrastructure and data center capacity to meet this demand.

 

While the funds will also be used to support the company's expansion and hiring efforts, they will also be used to support Gimlet Labs' first multisilicon cloud infrastructure platform, which it is currently building. Due to its heterogeneous design and architecture, the multisilicon cloud platform disaggregates workloads across chips, GPUs, and CPUs, ensuring more efficient use of power and data center resources.

 

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing division of Amazon, has integrated the data standards and services of the decentralized oracle network Chainlink into its platform, enabling connectivity between traditional cloud infrastructure and blockchain networks.

 

The integration, according to AWS, aims to address the blockchain oracle problem. Although blockchain networks operate as decentralized ledgers, they are not inherently designed to connect with external data sources, application programming interfaces (APIs), and other blockchains. This limitation presents a significant challenge for developers building digital asset solutions and tokenization products that depend on real-world data for operational efficiency.

 

 

By integrating Chainlink data standards into its marketplace, AWS addresses this connectivity problem, making it possible for blockchain networks to connect to its cloud infrastructure while maintaining the security, compliance, and reliability standards required by financial institutions.

 

The integration brings three Chainlink oracle services into the AWS Marketplace. These include Chainlink Data Feeds, which provide access to decentralized price and market data for asset valuation, assessment, and risk management; Chainlink Data Streams, which deliver fast and secure data that enables on-chain systems to respond to market movements in real time and manage risk dynamically; and Chainlink Proof of Reserve, which provides secure and verifiable on-chain reserve attestations for stablecoins and other tokenized assets.

 

Through this integration, enterprises will be able to build tokenization solutions that leverage AWS cloud capabilities alongside blockchain functionality without needing to independently solve the blockchain oracle problem. Developers will also be able to connect external data sources to blockchain applications through secure oracle networks while using AWS compute resources.

 

Platforms Integrate with Decentralized Oracle Networks

Decentralized oracle networks, which are blockchain-based middleware systems that securely bridge real-world data to blockchain networks using several independent nodes, have increasingly been integrated into platforms in recent times.

 

Just this month, Polymarket integrated Pyth Network into its prediction market platform. Through this integration, Polymarket enabled traders to place predictions on real-life commodities such as gold and silver, as well as U.S. stocks, including NVIDIA and Apple.

 

Allor Network, also this month, integrated the decentralized oracle network Band Protocol into its platform, allowing for the secure delivery of real-world data for its Web3 applications.

 

Chainlink decentralized oracles have also been integrated into traditional finance platforms, including SWIFT and SIX Group, the organization behind Switzerland’s principal stock exchange, the SIX Swiss Exchange, with plans underway to integrate them into the Australian Stock Exchange platform.