Small Caps Written by: Proactive 15:40 Tue 16 Jun 2026 --> Disclaimer No investment advice About this content Editorial Standards & Policies Share article About this content × About Proactive Proactive leads the world in up-to-the-minute, multi-media news provision, events organisation, investor relations management and investor research Read more About the publisher Proactive financial news and online broadcast teams provide fast, accessible, informative and actionable business and finance news content to a global investment audience. All our content is produced independently by our experienced and qualified teams of news journalists. Proactive news team spans the world’s key finance and investing hubs with bureaus and studios in London, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney and Perth. We are experts in medium and small-cap markets, we also keep our community up to date with blue-chip companies, commodities and broader investment stories. This is content that excites and engages motivated private investors. The team delivers news and unique insights across the market including but not confined to: biotech and pharma, mining and natural resources, battery metals, oil and gas, crypto and emerging digital and EV technologies. Use of technology Proactive has always been a forward looking and enthusiastic technology adopter. Our human content creators are equipped with many decades of valuable expertise and experience. The team also has access to and use technologies to assist and enhance workflows. Proactive will on occasion use automation and software tools, including generative AI. Nevertheless, all content published by Proactive is edited and authored by humans, in line with best practice in regard to content production and search engine optimisation. Axe Compute signs $25.9M in AI deployments Published: 15:40 16 Jun 2026 EDT Axe Compute Inc (NASDAQ:AGPU) has secured $25.9 million in total contract value across two long-term agreements to deploy Blackwell and Grace Blackwell compute for enterprise AI customers. The Pittsburgh-based neocloud infrastructure company said $12.9 million of that total has already been received in advance payments, giving it immediate working capital to fund deployment and operations. Both deals are long-term, running 12 and 24 months respectively, with options to extend. The two deployments target distinct workloads. One, built on Blackwell GPUs together with compute nodes, large-scale network connectivity and high-speed storage, supports an AI-centric cloud platform delivering inference infrastructure at scale, enabling machine learning teams to train, fine-tune and serve models across a range of generative AI applications. The second, running on the fully integrated Grace Blackwell GB300 compute stack, powers a simulation platform serving autonomy, gaming and robotics companies, supporting large-scale generation of physics-validated 3D environments, digital twins and synthetic scenarios. The contracts add to a build-out the company has detailed in recent months, including a previously disclosed $260 million GPU cluster contract on which it reported receiving a $43 million initial payment in May. The latest deals point to continued demand for flexible access to high-end GPU capacity as enterprises expand AI inference and simulation workloads. Axe Compute, formerly Predictive Oncology, adopted its current name in December 2025 after pivoting to GPU compute infrastructure. Continue reading