UK AI chip company Fractile completes $720 million Series C funding
Original headline英国 AI 芯片公司 Fractile 完成 7.2 亿美元 C 轮融资
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UK AI chip startup Fractile has raised $720 million in a Series C round led by Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint, with participation from the UK sovereign AI fund. The British government said the company’s valuation now exceeds £5 billion. Fractile is developing AI chips alongside a machine-learning compiler intended to speed up large-model workloads on its hardware. CEO Walter Goodwin said the new funding will support delivery of the company’s first chips and systems next year. The round underscores growing sovereign backing for domestic AI compute infrastructure; next, watch for the first silicon and system shipments and early performance benchmarks against incumbent accelerators.
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