{"id":44721,"date":"2026-04-15T21:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=44721"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:40:51","slug":"now-a-shoe-company-is-buying-up-gpus-and-pivoting-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=44721","title":{"rendered":"Now A Shoe Company Is Buying Up GPUs And Pivoting To AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4682980-screenshot2026-04-15at9.06.57%E2%80%AFam.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Allbirds, the struggling footwear company that has seen its stock price slide by about 50% over the past year, announced a dramatic shift in its business today centered around AI and GPUs. The company&#8217;s share value jumped by more than 100% after Allbirds made the announcement today.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the plan, Allbirds has sold its Allbirds brand and footwear assets to American Exchange Group, while the previous iteration of Allbirds&#8211;going forward to be known as NewBird AI&#8211;will &#8220;pivot its business to AI compute infrastructure.&#8221; The company said its long-term vision is to become a &#8220;fully integrated GPU-as-a-service and AI-native cloud solutions provider.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What makes a former shoe company believe it can compete in the AI space? That isn&#8217;t clear, but the company has secured millions of dollars in funding to help make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/now-a-shoe-company-is-buying-up-gpus-and-pivoting-to-ai\/1100-6539407\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allbirds, the struggling footwear company that has seen its stock price slide by about 50% over the past year, announced a dramatic shift in its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2645,2725,12609,20611,20610],"class_list":["post-44721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-buying","tag-company","tag-gpus","tag-pivoting","tag-shoe","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}