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UAE-based Mastiska closed a $10 million seed round from sovereign wealth funds to develop 'sovereign...
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The article updates the infrastructure player map with a new sovereign-focused hardware entrant (Mastiska) and signals a structural shift toward silicon autonomy and geopolitical decoupling in the compute layer.
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AI Infra · Player MapGeopoliticsSilicon Substrate
UAE-based Mastiska closed a $10 million seed round from sovereign wealth funds to develop 'sovereign silicon' for AI compute. This funding signals a major geopolitical shift, as nations prioritize independent, domestically controlled AI hardware to reduce reliance on major global chip manufacturers. Mastiska will build data-center class inference accelerators and target sovereign customers across the GCC, BRICS, and the Global South. The global race to secure the foundational hardware layer of AI is intensifying, making silicon autonomy a critical component of national security and economic power.
