Tenstorrent 以 62 亿美元估值融资 15 亿美元，扩展开放权重 AI 芯片
原标题：Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
AI 摘要
AI 芯片初创公司 Tenstorrent 以 62 亿美元估值完成 15 亿美元融资，估值较 2024 年底的 26 亿美元翻倍有余。本轮由 Trace Capital 和 Innovation X 领投，Cadence Ventures、Eclipse、Fidelity、SanDisk、T. Rowe Price 等参投。CEO Jim Keller 表示，在展示 Galaxy 服务器可运行 DeepSeek 模型后，公司决定保持独立并继续融资，新资金将用于扩展面向开放权重模型和视频生成的芯片。Tenstorrent 是试图挑战 Nvidia 主导地位的 AI 硬件初创公司之一。
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Tenstorrent, a chip startup focused on inference, has raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation. The round comes five months after the 10-year-old Nvidia challenger reportedly received acquisition interest from Intel and Qualcomm at valuations of as much as $5 billion. The fresh round, which more than doubled Tenstorrent’s valuation from the $2.6 billion it fetched in late 2024, was led by Trace Capital, a new firm launched by Quiet Capital co-founder Ben Mahdavi, and Innovation X. Other b