AI startup Inferact completes $150 million seed funding round, with a16z and Lightspeed leading the investment

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The AI startup Inferact, founded by the open-source software vLLM team, completed a $150 million seed round at an $800 million valuation. The company primarily focuses on reducing AI model operating costs and improving stability. The project originated from the University of California, Berkeley.

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On January 22, according to Bloomberg, the AI startup Inferact, founded by the team behind open-source software vLLM, completed a $150 million seed round at an $800 million valuation. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Lightspeed led the investment, with Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and ZhenFund participating. Inferact focuses on the reasoning phase of artificial intelligence, aiming to address the high operational costs and stability issues of existing AI models. The project originally originated at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently overseen by the PyTorch Foundation.

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