{"id":635331,"date":"2026-04-28T02:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635331\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T02:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:42:11","slug":"australian-ai-group-raises-us350-million-ahead-of-asx-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635331\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian AI group raises $US350 million ahead of ASX listing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia-based Sharon AI has taken advantage of investor demand for access to the booming artificial intelligence infrastructure sector, raising $US350 million ($487 million) as it prepares to pitch its initial public offer to Australian investors this week.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than build its own data centres, Sharon AI hosts its equipment in partners\u2019 facilities, such as NextDC, and rents access to AI chips to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/street-talk\/canva-signs-on-with-firmus-neocloud-rival-sharon-ai-20260401-p5zkr0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">businesses like Canva<\/a> to power their processing.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia-based Sharon AI has taken advantage of investor demand for access to the booming artificial intelligence infrastructure sector,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-635331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}