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Today, we launched GPU compute forward curves derived from our prediction market prices. Forward curves are now available on Nvidia B200. H200, and A100 chips. Forward curves track implied future prices. They are how mature commodity markets form expectations, allocate capital, and manage risk. Energy, interest rates/SOFR, FX, metals, and agricultural markets all rely on market-implied forward prices. Despite becoming one of the key inputs in the global economy, compute has lacked that market-derived infrastructure. Compute right now is where oil was before NYMEX — traded only via OTC deals, just like oil used to trade OTC between producers and refiners. As compute becomes as fundamental to the economy as energy, the industry will need a similar derivative market to promote efficient price discovery. Prediction markets are uniquely suited to this problem. Compute is not one uniform commodity and spans many chips, grades, tenors, locations, and contract structures. A live prediction market can aggregate those dispersed views into transparent prices that reflect market expectations for different maturities. The opportunity is big. Hyperscalers are spending over $700B on compute this year and the market is expected to grow to $7-10T by 2030. If this market behaves like traditional commodity markets, a liquid derivative market could be 10-20x bigger than the underlying spot market. Compute is still not uniform enough, but this is a step towards standardization as forward curves will help us see the rise and fall of different model prices and how they correlate. The forward curve is a first step. Up next: futures and perps.



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We just raised a $120 million Series C at a $1.2 billion valuation, led by @khoslaventures, to pursue the full-stack approach to legal AI. Blackstone, Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Coatue, Vanguard, New York Life, TIAA, Tony James, and Jeff Hammes (former Chairman of Kirkland & Ellis) also participated. Norm Ai (@normativeai ) has now raised more than $260 million since I founded the company less than three years ago to build agentic law. We’ve built a team of more than 200, primarily engineers and attorneys, to embed law into AI agents. Norm Law, an affiliated AI-native law firm running on the Norm Ai platform, uses those AI agents to serve clients like Blackstone as outside counsel, with attorneys supervising and improving the agents. Because Norm Law runs natively on Norm Ai’s agentic law technology and prices based on outcomes rather than hours, benefits of AI can now flow directly to the client. This creates a client-aligned incentive structure, unlike model providers, whose revenue is driven by token usage, and traditional law firms, whose revenue is driven by billing hours of human labor. The key distinction is the integration of the pricing model, the technology, and the people. Norm Law is chaired by Mike Schmidtberger, the former Chair of the Executive Committee of Sidley Austin. Other Partners include the former Global Head of Real Estate at Sidley Austin, a senior M&A Partner from Ropes & Gray, the General Counsel from Bain Capital Ventures, and key attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis, Simpson Thacher, Paul Weiss, Davis Polk, Skadden, Cleary Gottlieb, Latham & Watkins, Paul Hastings, Proskauer, and Pillsbury. Clients representing more than $30 trillion in assets under management use Norm Ai software, deploying legal AI agents directly for their in-house legal teams. Norm Ai’s technology is increasingly deployed to supervise other AI agents operating in regulated environments. When companies deploy their own AI agents in high-stakes roles like communicating directly with clients about investment products, Norm Ai's agents check that those agents are in compliance. The Series C will accelerate expanding practice area coverage and advance our supervisory agents.











