Tenstorrent 融资 $1.5 billion，估值达 $6.2 billion
Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
专注于推理芯片的初创公司 Tenstorrent 融资 $1.5 billion，估值达到 $6.2 billion。此轮融资由 Trace Capital 和 Innovation X 领投，使公司估值较 2024 年末的 $2.6 billion 增长逾一倍。公司计划用新资金扩展面向服务开放权重 AI 模型和视频生成的芯片。
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11:37 AM PDT · October 19, 2026
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 backers included Cadence Ventures, Eclipse, Fidelity, SanDisk, and T. Rowe Price.
Jim Keller, a prominent microprocessor engineer and Tenstorrent CEO, told Bloomberg that the company decided to remain independent and raise more capital after it showed that its Galaxy servers could run DeepSeek models. The new capital will go toward scaling chips tailored for serving open-weight AI models and video generation.
Tenstorrent is part of a wave of AI hardware startups trying to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance. Among them is Etched, an AI chip maker that was fielding investment offers at valuations of $40 billion or more, TechCrunch reported earlier this month.
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