Image: Tech Funding NewsBritish AI Chipmaker Fractile Secures $220 Million to Accelerate AI Inference Speed
• London-based startup Fractile raised $220 million in a Series funding round led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Founders Fund to develop specialized AI chips for inference acceleration. • Founded in 2022 by Oxford researcher Walter Goodwin, Fractile is building hardware architectures designed to increase inference performance from 40 tokens per second to approximately 1,200 tokens per second. • The company claims its systems could compress workloads that currently take a month into a single day, addressing a critical bottleneck in AI deployment.
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