Turing Inc., the Tokyo-based startup building generative AI-powered self-driving systems, is reportedly bringing AMD into its hardware stack. The move would mark a notable shift for a company that has, until now, built its compute infrastructure almost entirely around Nvidia.
What we know about Turing
Founded in 2021 and led by CEO Issei Yamamoto, Turing has been on an aggressive fundraising tear. The company closed its first Series A round on November 17, 2025, pulling in approximately ¥15.27 billion, or roughly $98.6 million.
That round was split between ¥9.77 billion in equity, co-led by JIC Venture Growth Investments and Global Brain, and ¥5.5 billion in debt.
Then in March 2026, GMO Internet Group dropped another ¥3.2 billion into Turing as part of a strategic partnership. That deal was explicitly tied to a GPU cloud computing arrangement using Nvidia’s H200 and B300 chips, targeting a theoretical performance of around 0.37 EFLOPS.
