AI Infra Decacorns, Search Backlash, and Better Ways to Grade AI Text | UpNext AI – May 27, 2026
A funding wave in AI infrastructure is turning the routing and inference layer into a story of its own, while users push back on Google’s AI-first vision for Search. Plus, a new paper argues many of the metrics we use to judge AI text can miss outright contradictions.
In this episode:
- AI infrastructure funding gets the spotlight as Latent Space frames Fireworks, Baseten, and OpenRouter as part of a new decacorn moment
- DuckDuckGo says installs jumped after Google’s AI Search overhaul, suggesting some users want more control over how much AI shows up in search
- A new arXiv paper, MATCHA…
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