उद्देश्य-निर्मित एआई क्लाउड के लिए $80 मिलियन के साथ फाउंड्री चुपके से उभरी

फाउंड्री came out of stealth with a fresh $80 million to help companies harness the power of AI.

दौर का सह-नेतृत्व किया गया था सिकोइया कैपिटल और लाइट्सपीड वेंचर पार्टनर्ससे भागीदारी के साथ लाल बिंदु, Microsoft Ventures (M12), दोषसिद्धि, एनईए and others. The round was at a की रिपोर्ट $350 मिलियन का मूल्यांकन

The Palo Alto, California-based startup is developing a public cloud purpose-built for ML workloads. The company कहते हैं its mission is to “ensure humanity maximizes the utility of the computing power we already have, and will produce” — as compute becomes harder and more expensive for many companies trying to embrace the AI revolution.

“AI accelerator compute is arguably the most critical resource in civilization today, so the bottlenecks here reverberate broadly,” said founder and CEO Jared Quincy Davis, एक पूर्व Deepmind employee, in a statement. “While the much-discussed GPU shortage is part of the challenge we face, it’s not the only issue. Arguably, the industry suffers vastly more from under-utilization than from under-supply. The work we are doing at Foundry is addressing this from multiple angles.”

Money continues to flow for AI

Despite some predictions of a funding slowdown this year, the AI industry has held relatively strong.

While it seems unlikely to hit $ 50 बिलियन का निशान it did last year, the space has already seen more than $10 billion flow into it this year from investors, per Crunchbase तिथि.

Just last week, AI startup एक साथ के नेतृत्व में $106 मिलियन का राउंड जुटाया सेल्सफोर्स वेंचर्स 1 that doubled its valuation to $1.25 billion. The Menlo Park, California-based company has developed a cloud platform to allow developers to build on open and custom AI models — allowing customers to fine-tune open source foundation models. 

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