RadixArk Debuts With $100 Million

<p><strong>PALO ALTO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cts&period;businesswire&period;com&sol;ct&sol;CT&quest;id&equals;smartlink&amp&semi;url&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;radixark&period;ai&percnt;2F&amp&semi;esheet&equals;54528914&amp&semi;newsitemid&equals;20260505077157&amp&semi;lan&equals;en-US&amp&semi;anchor&equals;RadixArk&amp&semi;index&equals;1&amp&semi;md5&equals;aef0b6f234c67fd66a448de36fdd6e9a" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener" shape&equals;"rect">RadixArk<&sol;a>&comma; a company providing access to frontier AI infrastructure&comma; has launched with &dollar;100 million in Seed funding at a &dollar;400 million post-money valuation&period; The round was led by Accel and co-led by Spark Capital&comma; with participation from NVentures &lpar;NVIDIA’s venture capital arm&rpar;&comma; Salience Capital&comma; A&amp&semi;E Investments&comma; HOF Capital&comma; Walden Catalyst Ventures&comma; AMD&comma; LDV Partners&comma; WTT Investment&comma; and MediaTek&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Other investors include Igor Babuschkin &lpar;Co-Founder of xAI&rpar;&comma; Lip-Bu Tan &lpar;CEO of Intel&rpar;&comma; Hock Tan &lpar;CEO of Broadcom&rpar;&comma; John Schulman &lpar;Co-Founder of OpenAI and Thinking Machines Lab&rpar;&comma; Soumith Chintala &lpar;PyTorch creator and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab&rpar;&comma; Olivier Pomel &lpar;Co-Founder of Datadog&rpar;&comma; Thomas Wolf &lpar;Co-Founder of Hugging Face&rpar;&comma; William Fedus &lpar;Co-Founder of Periodic Labs&rpar;&comma; Robert Nishihara &lpar;Co-Founder of Anyscale&rpar;&comma; Eric Zelikman &lpar;Co-Founder of humans&amp&semi;&rpar;&comma; and Logan Kilpatrick &lpar;Gemini Product Lead&rpar;&period; The company will use the capital to grow SGLang&comma; accelerate support for emerging model architectures and frontier hardware&comma; and build large-scale inference and training infrastructure for the next generation of AI applications&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>RadixArk was founded by Ying Sheng and Banghua Zhu&comma; AI infrastructure and modeling veterans from xAI and NVIDIA&period; In 2023&comma; Sheng and others created SGLang&comma; an open-source inference engine for serving models at scale&period; SGLang quickly became a de facto open-source standard&comma; stewarded by a global community of thousands of contributors across hundreds of companies&comma; universities&comma; and research organizations&period; SGLang is now deployed across hundreds of thousands GPUs worldwide and generates trillions of tokens daily for Google&comma; Microsoft&comma; NVIDIA&comma; Oracle&comma; AMD&comma; Nebius&comma; LinkedIn&comma; xAI&comma; Thinking Machines Lab&comma; and humans&amp&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Today&comma; the most sophisticated AI infrastructure is only available to a handful of companies&period; Neo-labs must rebuild core training and inference stacks from scratch&comma; while infrastructure teams at every company from enterprises to startups are understaffed and underresourced&period; The result is enormous waste from duplicated effort&comma; siloed research insights&comma; and impeded progress for the entire AI ecosystem&period; By treating infrastructure as a first-class priority&comma; RadixArk delivers the foundational open systems needed to build the next generation of AI&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our mission is simple yet ambitious&colon; make frontier-level AI infrastructure open and accessible to everyone&comma;” said Ying Sheng&comma; co-founder and CEO of RadixArk&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We believe the next generation of AI won’t be defined by who owns the biggest private infrastructure&comma; but by who builds the most meaningful applications on top of shared&comma; world-class systems&period; We aim to make these systems orders of magnitude cheaper and more accessible&comma; so everyone can build on them&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>RadixArk will go beyond traditional inference solutions that offer compute access for off-the-shelf or open-source models&period; Instead&comma; the company is building an end-to-end platform that supports the full lifecycle of model development&comma; including training proprietary models&comma; fine-tuning open models&comma; running reinforcement learning&comma; and deploying and running inference at scale&period; By standardizing on a single platform&comma; RadixArk customers maintain ownership and control of their models while having access to best-in-class infrastructure primitives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;RadixArk is building the open foundation for the next era of AI—where companies don’t just consume models&comma; they train and manage them as a core part of product development&comma;” said Ivan Zhou&comma; partner at Accel&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;By democratizing training and inference infrastructure&comma; RadixArk enables any engineer to experiment and innovate at the frontier&comma; fully owning how AI powers their products&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>RadixArk’s platform is built on battle-tested&comma; open foundations across the AI stack&period; Inference runs on SGLang&comma; the fastest and most flexible open engine for modern models&comma; while reinforcement learning is powered by Miles&comma; the company’s open-source framework for large-scale training&period; SGLang was incubated at LMSys&comma; a nonprofit organization founded by researchers from Stanford&comma; Carnegie Mellon&comma; UC Berkeley&comma; and other universities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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