Allbirds trades sneakers for silicon, rebrands as NewBird AI
TL;DR
Allbirds pivots from footwear to AI compute infrastructure, renaming to NewBird AI with a $50 million funding commitment to build GPU-based compute and cloud services, as it exits the footwear business and sells its assets; stock jumped more than 300% on the announcement.
- Allbirds, once a buzzy shoe startup, pivots to AI NBC News
- Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 700% CNBC
- Allbirds shares soar 600% as it pivots from footwear to AI CNN
- Allbirds stock soars more than 600% as the shoemaker rebrands as an AI company Yahoo Finance
- Breakingviews - Allbirds lacks footing for dramatic AI pivot Reuters
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