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[funding]Sep 30, 2026By ByteBulletin Editor

Modal Labs closes $750M round at $15.75B valuation

Inference infrastructure startup triples its valuation in four months as demand for open-source model execution outpaces compute costs.

[funding]Aug 18, 2026By ByteBulletin Editor

Etched raises $700M at $21B valuation as Jane Street bets big on AI inference hardware

The AI chip startup's valuation doubled in a month as its novel inference approach wins over a quant fund with demanding workloads.

[funding]Jul 20, 2026By ByteBulletin Editor

Infinity Raises $15M to Build a Universal CUDA Alternative for AI Inference

The startup aims to democratize AI chip access by using an autonomous agent to generate low-level kernel code for any hardware.