$75M for AI Efficiency: 3-5x Better Performance/Watt than NVIDIA | Mitesh Agrawal, CEO of Positron AI

Producing the highest performance, lowest power, and best total cost of ownership solution for AI transformer model inference.

🎧 Episode Summary

Positron AI is an AI hardware startup developing energy-efficient solutions optimized for transformer model inference, critical for applications like ChatGPT.

They’ve raised about $75M and achieve 3-5x better performance per dollar and per watt versus most other chips today.

They recently raised $51.6 million in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management, and DFJ Growth.

They also ranked #3 in The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups.

Mitesh Agrawal, CEO of Positron, recently transitioned from his role as chief operating officer and cofounder of Lambda, a multibillion-dollar-valued cloud infrastructure company focused on AI and NVIDIA GPU-powered services. 

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