Compute & chips · Berkeley, US · founded 2025
Inferact: who founded it, who funds it
Inferact is a Berkeley AI chip lab founded in 2025 by Woosuk Kwon and Simon Mo, who came from UC Berkeley. What it is building: commercialising vLLM, from its creators. No funding round has been disclosed. It releases open-weight models.
- Founders
- Woosuk Kwon (ex-UC Berkeley), Simon Mo (ex-UC Berkeley)
- Founders from
- ex-UC Berkeley
- Location
- Berkeley, US (North America)
- Valuation
- $800M estimate, per source
- Raised
- · disclosed
- Investors
- ·
- What ships
- Open model
Sources
- neolabs.fyi neolabs.fyi
- spiderking spiderking.ai
News
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Jan 23, 2026
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Jan 22, 2026
+4 more coverage
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