We’re excited to announce that we’re leading a $150M seed round for Inferact. @inferact is a new startup led by the maintainers of the vLLM project, including Simon Mo, Woosuk Kwon, Kaichao You, and Roger Wang. vLLM is the leading open source inference engine and one of the biggest open source projects of any kind and is used in production by companies like Meta, Google, Character AI, and many others. Inferact supports the vLLM project through dedicated financial and developer resources and will build what they see as the next generation commercial inference engine. For a16z infra, investing in the vLLM community is an explicit bet that the future will bring incredible diversity of AI apps, agents, and workloads running on a variety of hardware platforms. By @BornsteinMatt, @JasonSCui, and @RaghuRaghuram @simon_mo_ @woosuk_k @KaichaoYou @rogerw0108(a16z)