Multative IT increases $ 215 million for technology that could radically slim IA costs
On Thursday, the Spanish multi -computing startup announced that it had raised a huge B series of 189 million euros (around $ 215 million) on the strength of a technology it calls “compactive”.
Compactifai is a compression technology inspired by quantum composition which is capable of reducing the size of LLMS up to 95% without impact on the performance of the model, according to the company.
More specifically, MultiVivese offers compressed versions of well -known open source LLMS – mainly small models – such as Llama 4 Scout, Llama 3.3 70b, Llama 3.1 8b, Mistral Small 3.1. However, he will soon publish a version of Deepseek R1, with more open source models and reasoning to come soon. Openai and others are not supported.
Its “thin” models, as the company calls it, are available on Amazon Web Services or can be under license for local uses. The company claims that its models are 4x-12x faster than comparable comparable versions, which results in a reduction of 50% to 80% of the costs of inference. For example, Multiverse says that its Lama 4 Scout Slim costs 10 cents per million tokens on AWS compared to the 14 cents of Lama 4 Scout.
The company claims that some of its models can be made so small and energy efficient that they could be executed on PCs, phones, cars, drones and even the tiny favorite DIY, Raspberry Pi. (We suddenly imagine these raspberry Pi Christmas Houses Improved Houses with Interactive Interactive Santas.)
Multiverse has a technical power behind it. He was co -founded by CTO Román Orús, professor at Donostia International Physics Center in San Sebastián, Spain. Orús is known for his pioneering work on tensor networks (not to be confused with all the things related to the name named tensor in Google).
Tensor networks are calculation tools that imitate quantum computers but work on conventional computers. One of their main uses today is the compression of in -depth learning models.
The co-founder and CEO of multiverse, Enrique Lizaso Olmos, also has several mathematical diplomas and was a university professor. He spent most of his career in banking services, better known as the former assistant CEO of Unnim Bank.
The B series was managed by Bullhound Capital (which supported companies like Spotify, Revolut, Deliveryhero, Avito, Discord) as well as the participation of HP Tech Ventures, Sett, Forgepoint International Capital, CDP Venture Capital, Santander Climate VC, Toshiba and Capital Riesgo de Euskadi – Grupo Spr
Multaveveh says that it has 160 patents and 100 customers worldwide, including Iberdrola, Bosch and the Bank of Canada. With this funding, he has collected around $ 250 million to date.
