Inferact, founded by the creators of vLLM to support and commercialize the open-source inference engine, raised a $150M seed led by a16z at an $800M valuation
Today, we're proud to announce @inferact, a startup founded by creators and core maintainers of @vllm_project, the most popular open-source LLM inference engine. Our mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper …
No one I'd trust more to buy tokens from then the people who are building the open source ecosystem around inference. We've seen the market for inference on open models explode since deepseek. A nice match and congrats!