RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient via its open-source SGLang engine (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

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RadixArk, founded by former xAI employee Ying Sheng and backed by NVIDIA, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to optimize AI inference using its open-source SGLang engine, targeting memory-efficient serving at scale.

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<a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-computing-is-a-memory-hog-an-nvidia-backed-startup-has-an-answer-383a5710?st=SePZqY&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260505/i21.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260505/p21#a260505p21" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Meghan Bobrowsky / <a href="https://www.wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-computing-is-a-memory-hog-an-nvidia-backed-startup-has-an-answer-383a5710?st=SePZqY&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient via its open-source SGLang engine</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; RadixArk has raised $100 million at a $400 million valuation for a software engine and framework that make inference and training more efficient to run</p>