按16B美元估值的基因媒体推论启动fal 融资 1.3B
根據彭博社的估計，General media expressup fal today 宣布它有13億融资的新資金
公司将把这笔钱花在计算功率和雇佣超过其现有185名员工身上。
Fal提供了运行图像，视频和音频生成模型的云平台，开发人员通过单一的应用程序编程接口来覆盖所有图像。 据该公司称，娱乐工作室、广告机构和游戏开发商都是在生产中使用这些模型的客户。
内部研究人员也在培训后对其中一些模型进行了快速运行。 在过去一年里，这项工作一直以视频为中心，与建立模型的开放和封闭源码开发商合作。 Bloomberg报告说，有些交易支付Fal许可证费或部分收入。
共同创始人兼行政长官Burkay Gur说，这一回合的出炉量和现在一样大，因为需求激增，服务需要更多的计算。 称先生说，“夏天的时候，我们无法服务于我们的客户，不得不对他们进行评分。” 称 Gur，近期议程并未排除此事。
今年早些时候，一个熟悉此事的人告诉彭博格，Fal的年收入超过8亿美元。 估值使Fal仅仅落后于竞争推论提供者Fireworks AI公司，该公司在7月以175亿美元的估值结束了15亿美元的资金。 熟悉推断公司财务的一些人告诉TechCrunch，整个部门的总利润仍然很小，因为计算价格昂贵，无法购买或租赁。
古尔于2021年与首席技术官Gorkem Yurtseven创办公司。 他的简历包括在Coinbase Global Inc.公司领导机器学习工作和在Oracle公司担任工程角色。 Yurtsele以前是Amazon.com公司的一名开发商。
Bessemer Venture Partners领导了系列F回合，其合作伙伴塔莉娅·戈德伯格(Talia Goldberg)将加入Features & Labels Inc.的董事会，因为Fal是正式已知的。 Nvidia公司、Sound Ventures公司、HOF Capital公司和T. Rowe Price Group Inc.也参加了会议。 Fal将Nvidia描述为战略投资人。
今天的宣布也覆盖了4月由Sequoia Capital领导的一轮。 E系列以80亿美元的价格计算了3.5亿融资和Fal 称，两轮合计达到16.5亿美元。 去年12月，融资公司以45亿美元估值1.4亿美元。
投资者现已向该公司投入超过19亿美元。
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Generative media inference startup fal raises $1.3B at a $16B valuation
Generative media inference startup fal today announced it has raised $1.3 billion in new funding at a valuation of $16 billion, according to Bloomberg.
The company will spend the money on computing power and on hiring beyond its current 185 employees.
Fal provides a cloud platform for running image, video and audio generation models, and developers reach all of them through a single application programming interface. Entertainment studios, advertising agencies and game developers are among the customers using those models in production, according to the company.
In-house researchers also post-train some of those models to run faster. Over the past year that work has centered on video, in partnership with the open- and closed-source developers that build the models. Some of the deals pay fal licensing fees or a share of revenue, Bloomberg reported.
Co-founder and Chief Executive Burkay Gur told the outlet the round is as large as it is because demand has surged and serving it takes more compute. “We hit a point in summer where we were not able to serve our customers and had to rate-limit them,” he said. Pretraining a model of fal’s own is not on the near-term agenda, said Gur, who did not rule it out for later.
Annualized revenue at fal passed $800 million earlier this year, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The valuation puts fal just behind rival inference provider Fireworks AI Inc., which closed $1.5 billion in funding at a $17.5 billion valuation in July. Several people familiar with the finances of inference companies told TechCrunch that gross margins across the sector remain thin because compute is expensive to buy or lease.
Gur started the company in 2021 with Chief Technology Officer Gorkem Yurtseven. His resume includes leading machine learning work at Coinbase Global Inc. and an engineering role at Oracle Corp. Yurtseven was previously a developer at Amazon.com Inc.
Bessemer Venture Partners led the Series F round, and its partner Talia Goldberg is joining the board of Features & Labels Inc., as fal is formally known. Nvidia Corp., Sound Ventures, HOF Capital and T. Rowe Price Group Inc. also participated. Fal described Nvidia as a strategic investor.
Today’s announcement also covered an April round led by Sequoia Capital. That Series E round raised $350 million at an $8 billion valuation, per Bloomberg, and fal said the two rounds come to $1.65 billion combined. Last December, the company raised $140 million at a $4.5 billion valuation.
Investors have now put more than $1.9 billion into the company.
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