A pista de raciocínio de IA decolou: Inferact arrecada 150 milhões de dólares em financiamento, a16z lidera a rodada

【BlockBeats】Recent AI inference sector has seen significant funding. The core team behind the open-source vLLM project founded the AI company Inferact, which just completed a $150 million seed funding round, valuing the company at $800 million. This round was led jointly by a16z and Lightspeed, with top venture capital firms Sequoia, Altimeter, Redpoint participating, and ZhenFund also involved.

Why pay attention to this company? Inferact focuses on AI model inference optimization — a very practical pain point. Currently, the inference costs of large models are exorbitant, and stability is also insufficient. Their approach is to start with low-level optimization, making inference cheaper and more stable. The project originated at Berkeley and is now overseen by the PyTorch Foundation, with a strong technical background.

The signals from this funding round are clear: the competition in AI’s second half is shifting from training to inference, and investment in infrastructure layers is heating up. For Web3 investors, this is also worth watching — because the logic of efficiency optimization is equally applicable in the blockchain field.