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COSS Companies Sign Open Letter Urging US to Encourage Development of Open Weight Models
The Linux Foundation joined Cisco, Dell Technologies, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and other industry signatories in an open letter which makes the case that open weight models are an essential part of the foundation for secure, universally accessible and innovative AI . The letter argues that the right response to the real risks of open weights is a stronger open ecosystem rather than prohibition, and that policymakers should encourage rather than restrict frontier open models.
Andreessen Horowitz
Investing in Inferact
Andreessen Horowitz announces leading the $150 million seed round for Inferact, a startup commercializing the vLLM inference engine, with discussion of the inference market.
TechCrunch
Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM
Inferact, the startup behind the open-source vLLM inference engine, raised a $150 million seed round at an $800 million valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed.
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