AI startup Inferact completes $150 million seed funding round, led by a16z and Lightspeed

According to Bloomberg, the AI startup Inferact, founded by the team behind the open-source software vLLM, has completed a $150 million seed round financing at a valuation of $800 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Lightspeed, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and ZhenFund.

Inferact focuses on the inference stage of artificial intelligence, aiming to address the issues of high operational costs and insufficient stability of existing AI models. The project originated at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently overseen by the PyTorch Foundation.