The Series C funding round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Iconiq Growth, with participation from additional new investors NEA, World Innovation Lab, Valor, Endeavor Catalyst Fund and Lunate.

The AI inference chip specialist will run DeepSeek R1 70B at 1,600 tokens/second, which it claims is 57x faster than any R1 provider using GPUs; one can deduce that 28 tokens/second is what GPU-in-the ...

Now that the use of AI is becoming more widespread, it's common that AI companies will try to emulate other AI companies to make them more palatable to their consumers.

The emergence of DeepSeek came shortly after President Trump unveiled his "Stargate" project to invest $500bn in advancing AI.