AI Infrastructure Startup Infinity Raises $15M at $100M Valuation on July 20

According to BlockBeats, AI infrastructure startup Infinity completed a $15 million funding round on July 20, bringing its valuation to $100 million. The round was led by Touring Capital and Principal VC, with participation from researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic.

Infinity develops universal AI inference software to enable different AI chip architectures to run large language models, reducing developers' dependence on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem. The company's Ignition AI research agent automatically generates and optimizes kernel code for AI inference across various hardware types including GPUs, mobile chips, and Systolic Arrays.