# AI Firms Expand Infrastructure and Tools

Recent developments highlight significant advancements in AI-related procurement and infrastructure investment. Magnetic is deploying AI digital workers that deliver substantial cost savings for major manufacturers, signaling growing demand for AI automation solutions. Exa's Snapshot tool enhances AI agent testing and financial backtesting by enabling historical web searches, offering improved data services for AI development. Crusoe secured a substantial $3.9 billion Series F funding round to expand its AI infrastructure, including power plants and data centers essential for large-scale AI model training, indicating major growth in AI hardware and energy resources.

- **Why this matters:** Procurement professionals should note the increasing integration of AI digital workers and advanced data tools in manufacturing and financial sectors, creating new contracting opportunities.
- The large-scale infrastructure investments by Crusoe suggest rising demand for specialized construction, energy, and data center services supporting AI workloads.
- Contractors in AI software, data services, and infrastructure deployment can leverage these trends to align offerings with evolving government and commercial AI procurement needs.
- Locations like the Abilene campus in Texas may become strategic hubs for AI infrastructure projects, presenting regional contracting prospects.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Information Technology
**Topics:** Artificial Intelligence, Digital Infrastructure
**Published:** September 21, 2026

### Vendors
- Magnetic (AI digital workers provider)
- Exa (Search infrastructure provider)
- Crusoe (AI infrastructure provider)

### Sources
- [AI Digital Workers, Searching the Web's Past & $3.9B for AI Infrastructure. - YouTube](https://youtu.be/UP6BEpLdP9k) - YouTube