Fractile

Fractile raised $220 million in Series B funding co-led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund to develop AI inference chips. This significant investment targets the growing demand for specialized hardware to run AI models efficiently.

Anthropic is in early discussions to purchase DRAM-less AI inference chips from UK startup Fractile, whose SRAM architecture reduces expensive memory requirements during current pricing and shortage conditions. This partnership could address memory cost pressures affecting AI model deployment economics.