# Cloud and AI Vendors Flood Startups With Compute Credits to Lock Them In

Infrastructure grants now reach into the millions per startup, structured to make later migration to a competitor costly.

- Published: 2026-07-09T05:49:21.519Z
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Russian-language technology channel AI ML Big Data reports that AI vendors and cloud providers are giving startups multimillion-dollar infrastructure credits to bind them to a given ecosystem early and make switching to a rival harder later…

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