Infinity raises $15M to run AI inference on any chipset
Early-stage AI infrastructure research company Infinity Inc. said it raised $15 million in seed funding to develop software that automatically prepares new artificial intelligence chips to run inference workloads.
The round values the company at $100 million on a post-money basis. Infinity will use the capital to expand its engineering team, scale its automated research platform and accelerate partnerships with chipmakers including d-Matrix Corp. The company said it is already generating millions of dollars in annual recurring revenue from chip design partnerships.
The company’s core technology is Ignition, an AI agent that generates, tests and optimizes the low-level software needed to run models efficiently on different processors. Infinity is targeting a longstanding obstacle for would-be Nvidia Corp. competitors: Even when their hardware is competitive, they lack a mature software ecosystem comparable to Nvidia’s Cuda. The company said its technology can help loosen Nvidia’s grip on the market for AI processors by generating what is effectively a Cuda-level software stack in hours or days..
Ignition automates “the creation of debuggers, profilers, compilers, kernels, the orchestration of kernels in inference, and many other steps,” said Founder and Chief Executive Jeremy Nixon.
