{"id":1034657,"date":"2026-09-12T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034657"},"modified":"2026-09-12T08:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:39:34","slug":"ai-chip-startup-positrons-valuation-skyrockets-in-latest-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/ai-chip-startup-positrons-valuation-skyrockets-in-latest-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chip startup Positron&#8217;s valuation skyrockets in latest funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Positron AI, a startup developing chips to run AI \u200bmodels, said on Thursday \u200bit has raised $875 million in its latest \u200bfunding round, more than quadrupling its valuation in seven months to $5 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The startup had raised $230 million in February at a valuation of $1.06 billion, according \u200cto data \u2060provider \u2060PitchBook. <\/p>\n<p>The rapidly growing AI inference market, focused on running trained AI models, has become a key battleground as companies develop specialized processors to challenge Nvidia&#8217;s dominance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positron AI, a startup developing chips to run AI \u200bmodels, said on Thursday \u200bit has raised $875 million in its latest \u200bfunding round, more than quadrupling its valuation in seven months to $5 billion. The startup had raised $230 million in February at a valuation of $1.06 billion, according \u200cto data \u2060provider \u2060PitchBook. The rapidly growing AI inference market, focused on running trained AI models, has become a key battleground as companies develop specialized processors to challenge Nvidia&#8217;s dominance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034667,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034657\/revisions\/1034667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}