CoinVoice has learned that, according to Bloomberg, the AI startup Inferact, founded by the team behind open-source software vLLM, completed a $150 million seed round at a valuation of $800 million. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Lightspeed led the investment, with Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and ZhenFund participating.\n\nInferact 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.