Nscale adds Fidji Simo to its board

Nscale appointed former OpenAI CEO of AGI Deployment Fidji Simo as an independent director on September 11, 2026, adding a leader who took Instacart through its 2023 public listing, the AI-cloud company announced. Simo remains an OpenAI adviser, and TechCrunch reports that the appointment arrives ahead of a potential IPO. For operators, Nscale’s $3.5B Figure compute commitment remains a capacity claim to qualify, not a delivery guarantee: board pedigree can signal financing readiness, but it does not ship megawatts.