Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Athropic researchers
AI infrastructure startup Infinity has raised $15 million to develop universal software that allows AI models to run on various types of hardware. The company aims to challenge Nvidia's market dominance by creating a hardware-agnostic alternative to the CUDA platform.
Why it matters
Reducing reliance on Nvidia's proprietary software is a critical step for the broader AI industry to diversify hardware usage and lower development costs.
AI infrastructure company Infinity announced a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation on Monday from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. The startup is building software to make it easier for AI chips to run AI models. One big reason Nvidia became the top player is not just its high-performance chips, but also its CUDA software (Compute Unified Device Architecture), which allows its GPUs (originally designed to run graphics) to act as general-purpose processing CPUs. The largest AI development frameworks PyTorch and TensorFlow have been built on top of CUDA. This allows developers to write their apps in popular languages like Python, use those major AI frameworks and their apps will, by default, run on Nvidia chips.
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