Project SGLang Spins Out as RadixArk With $400M Valuation as Inference Market Explodes
RadixArk, the startup behind AI inference tool SGLang, hits $400M valuation amid surging demand for efficient model deployment.
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Project SGLang Spins Out as RadixArk With $400M Valuation as Inference Market Explodes
RadixArk Emerges From SGLang with $400M Valuation In a move that underscores the explosive growth of AI infrastructure, RadixArk—the commercial entity behind the open-source project SGLang—has secured a $400 million valuation in a recent funding round. If you’ve been wondering who’s building the next generation of tools to make AI models faster and cheaper to run, the answer is increasingly pointing to startups like RadixArk. Born from research at UC Berkeley and now backed by top-tier investors including Accel and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, the company is positioning itself at the heart of the AI inference boom. Credit: Yuichiro Chino / Getty Images The timing couldn’t be better. As enterprises rush to deploy large language models (LLMs) in production, the cost and latency of running those models have become critical bottlenecks. Enter SGLang: a programming framework designed to optimize how AI models generate responses, dramatically cutting both time and compute expenses. Now, with its core…
