BlockBeats news: On January 22, according to Bloomberg, the founding team of the open-source software vLLM has established an AI startup called Inferact. The company has completed a $150 million seed round financing at an $800 million valuation. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and ZhenFund.
Inferact focuses on the inference phase of artificial intelligence, aiming to address the issues of high operational costs and insufficient stability in existing AI models. The project originated from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently overseen by the PyTorch Foundation.