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Allbirds Abandons Footwear and Environmental Mission, Rebrands as AI Infrastructure Company

Sourced from 10 publications

•Allbirds will sell its footwear assets to American Exchange for $39 million and rebrand as NewBird AI, focusing on GPU-as-a-Service and cloud solutions.
•Bloomberg reported the company was days from shutting down before announcing the pivot.
•The stock surged between 550% and 600% following the announcement, despite the company never having turned a profit since its 2021 IPO.
•An SEC filing confirmed Allbirds is abandoning its founding environmental sustainability mission in the transition, according to Business Insider.
•The company secured $50 million in convertible financing to fund GPU acquisitions for its new AI infrastructure business.

Sources

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gizmodotech

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Businessinsider

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Straitstimes

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Gizmodo

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Bloomberg

Shares in Allbirds surge after maker of wool sneakers announces pivot to AI

The Guardian

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TechCrunch

Allbirds abandons clothes, pivots to "AI compute infrastructure"

Ars Technica

Allbirds announced a switch from shoes to AI and its stock jumped 600 percent

The Verge

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