Multiverse Computing raises EUR 189 million to shrink AI model costs
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing raised a EUR 189 million (USD 215 million) Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with HPE Tech Ventures and CDP Venture Capital joining. The round funds CompactifAI, which compresses large language models by up to 95 percent to cut inference costs.
What it does not test. It does not establish that CompactifAI reduces reliance on foreign AI models, only that it compresses them.
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