Ami Labs

AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun rejects AGI/superintelligence labels, while the company is pre-product but has raised $1.03B at a $3.5B pre-money, with Asia-focused partnerships and a Korea-driven expansion plan.

ZML launches a free multi-chip LLM inference server (ZML/LLMD) to run models across Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal, and Intel Arc, aiming to reduce vendor lock-in and lower inference costs.

SambaNova raises $1B at an $11B valuation in a first close of its Series F, five months after a mega round, with JPMorgan as a customer and Intel partnership, signaling continued demand for AI inference hardware and potential exit paths.