CentML sold to NVIDIA after struggling to sell to Canadian enterprises

A Toronto AI infrastructure startup reportedly found Bay Area customers before Canadian enterprises would even trial the product

CentML sold to Nvidia for $400M. Before that, the Toronto team couldn't get a single Canadian enterprise to try their product. Bay Area companies had no problem. The founder said it plainly at Toronto Tech Week: you don't even get in the d
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