Fal是一家以旧金山为基地，主机和运行AI视频，图像，音频模型的启动商，在由Bessemer Venture Partners领导的最新一轮资金中拥有13亿ZQZ，参与的有Nvidia,Sound Ventures和T. Rowe Price. 该交易价值160亿美元，是4月份价值80亿美元的两倍，彭博社报道。
启动的宣布其系列E&F同时进行回合，注意到16.5亿美元的总和是融资横跨了两个回合。 (司空领前轮。
最新一轮(Series F)是在对推论服务的需求猛增的情况下出现的，运行AI模型的过程已经训练过以产生产出，尤其是来自客户依赖于开源模型。 彭博社的报告指出
提供推论服务的公司，包括Baseten,Fireworks AI，和Modal，也在快速增长，并在更高的估值中筹集了大轮资金。 但是，据熟悉公司财务的一些人说，由于购买或租赁成本高昂，它们的毛利润仍然很小。
Fal于2021年由前Coinbase机器学习领军人物兼Oracle工程师Burkay Gur和Gorkem Yurtseven共同创立，后者之前是Amazon的开发商。
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Fal, a San Francisco-based startup that hosts and runs AI video, image, and audio models, has raised $1.3 billion in its latest funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Nvidia, Sound Ventures, and T. Rowe Price. The deal values Fal at $16 billion, double its $8 billion valuation in April, Bloomberg reported.
The startup announced its Series E & F rounds at the same time, noting that a combined $1.65 billion was raised across both. (Sequoia led the earlier round.)
The latest round (Series F) comes amid soaring demand for inference services, the process of running an AI model that’s already been trained to generate outputs, particularly from customers relying on open-source models. Fal surpassed $800 million in annualized revenue earlier this year, Bloomberg’s report noted.
Companies providing inference services, including Baseten, Fireworks AI, and Modal, have also been growing rapidly and raising large funding rounds at higher valuations. But their gross margins remain thin because of the high cost of buying or leasing compute, according to several people familiar with inference companies’ financials.
Fal was co-founded in 2021 by Burkay Gur, a former Coinbase machine learning leader and Oracle engineer, and Gorkem Yurtseven, who was previously a developer at Amazon.
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