Positron AI Becomes Unicorn With $230 Mn Raise to Power the Next Wave of Energy-Efficient AI Inference
The company said the funding will be used to expand its engineering and operations teams, scale manufacturing, and bring its inference-focused hardware and software stack to a broader set of enterprise customers.
Positron AI has raised $230 million in a Series B funding round, pushing the company’s valuation past $1 billion as it accelerates development of energy-efficient infrastructure for artificial intelligence inference.
The company said the funding will be used to expand its engineering and operations teams, scale manufacturing, and bring its inference-focused hardware and software stack to a broader set of enterprise customers.
Last year, the startup raised $51.6 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round.
Positron AI aims to address a key industry challenge: the rising energy consumption associated with deploying and serving AI models at scale.
“Energy availability has emerged as a key bottleneck for AI deployment. And our next-generation chip will deliver 5x more tokens per watt in our core workloads versus Nvidia’s upcoming Rubin GPU. Memory is the other giant bottleneck in inference, and our next generation Asimov custom silicon will ship with over 2304 GB of RAM per device next year, versus just 384 GB for Rubin."
"This will be a critical differentiator in workloads including video, trading, multi-trillion parameter models, and anything requiring an enormous context window. We also expect to beat Rubin in performance per dollar for specific memory-intensive workloads,” said Mitesh Agrawal, CEO of Positron AI.
According to the company, its architecture is designed specifically for inference workloads, which are increasingly central to real-time applications such as chatbots, copilots, and generative AI services.
By optimising performance per watt, Positron AI says it can lower operational costs and environmental impact for organizations running large-scale AI systems.
The company noted that demand for efficient inference solutions is accelerating as enterprises move from experimentation to production deployments of AI. With the new funding, Positron AI plans to deepen partnerships across the AI ecosystem and expand its global footprint.
