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- Preempted the blog post.
Man, they are just sucking up capital. If somebody like Antropic has made them the primary 'CPU' rack, then that's they kind of cash you need.
I mean, you could probably get multiple GIGAbytes of RAM with 445M.
by panick21_ - I've been following closely and have been both very impressed with what they're building but also very disappointed. They have a great vision for a seamless hardware project, but completely missed the point of what the software automation to tie it all together should look like.
I'd love to give Bryan Cantrill or ahl a 30 min demo. Feel free to ping!
by purpleidea - left hand: governance gaps, privacy, owning instead of renting
right hand: nearly every employee of every org buying these things is sending almost everything to LLMs - or using software ULTIMATELY written by, tested by or whatevered by, these LLMs. LLMs that were created by or distilled from anthropic, openai, or google, who see everything SALIENT about what you do, or what ALL of your customers do, even if they are careful about not looking at the specifics of what you do
- Wish I could have heard back about my job application there. It looks like a really exciting place to work.
- Same, especially given how long that app specifically takes.by enricozb
- So with all the money raised, it's telling me there is a chance of a home-lab Oxide rack :-) (Congrats guys)by dramm
- They just raised $200M in February and $100M a year ago.by bkolobara
- Preparing for an IPO maybe?by dgellow
- Must be a pain scaling hardware procurement in a market where everything is overpriced.by schainks
- I will implicitly trust anything Jessie Frazelle works on. Rare combination of taste, skill, and passion.by LennyWhiteJr
- yep, another fan here!by sscarduzio
- She stepped down several years ago.
She was still listed as an advisor in some capacity, but she moved on to a different startup.
by Aurornis - I've seen posts about Oxide for years now, but do they actually ship hardware? I've never seen images, or posts about companies with their new Oxide Thingamajig™by fishgoesblub
- Furthermore, do they ship only to the US or can those racks be bought elsewhere too?by NexRebular
- Most of their customers wouldn't be the type to let others know.by esseph
- as far as I can tell, yes?
It seems like Jane street and lawrence national laboratory are two confirmed customers.
by vsgherzi - The CEO of Shopify tweeted about it at one point:by throw0101d
- We've shipped kind of a lot of hardware at this point!by ahl
- Just like the last Oxide post, I just have to say how excited I am for their product as a concept. I really hope to see them continue to do well!
Selfishly of course so I can make sure there are more episodes of Oxide and Friends for years to come. Adam annd Bryan's ability to reference thirty year old simpsons episodes is unmatched.
by jjice - $400m of Simpsons references is undeniably a good use of VC.by ahl
- (VP of Eng here) I filled out their sales form last year and never heard from them. We're currently spending $900k/year on AWS, and they didn't even acknowledge my request. crazy stuff.by bithavoc
- Well that isn't that much. $1M / month feels more like it.by jiveturkey
- tbf they are probably looking for customers with cloud spend ending in 'm'by ellieh
- Logical.
They probably will be aquihired by someone like Broadcom.
by Alien1Being - we spend 2-2.5M a year I wouldn’t consider us their product scale yet.
My understanding is the full rack is about $1.2M and smallest half rack is about $600k and this was before the RAM and other price hikes now.
You are still going to have some residual cloud workloads(so all AWS won’t migrate ) and HA and DR regions etc plus the maintenance and incidentals (power , connectivity ).
I don’t expect anyone less than 5M spends and high base loads is a good fit for their offering.
by manquer - If your CIO is not ideologically averse on paying people instead of paying jeff bezos, you can save money even buying dell.by elzbardico
- Hit me up @oxidecomputer.comby ahl
- We had the opposite experience. We contacted them through their form this year and they were happy to discuss with us even when we communicated from the beginning we wouldn't be customer in the short to medium term and even for single rack systems.by Sayrus
- They work with HFT/quant firms. Look at some of their former engineers who are now at matX.
Intel/Barefoot Tofino 2, VHDL/SystemVerilog, FPGA, QSFP28 (100GbE networking), P4 programming.
Their buyers don’t have customer stories. They don’t sell to SaaS companies.
by apimade - Woot!, they are on a tear:
2023: Series A 44 Million https://oxide.computer/blog/oxide-unveils-the-worlds-first-c...
2025: Series B 100 Million https://oxide.computer/blog/our-100m-series-b
2026: Series C 200 Million https://oxide.computer/blog/our-200m-series-c
2026: Series D 445 Million https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795071/000179507126...
by shofetim