Daily Brief Private Markets: Featherless.ai secures US$5M to make AI inference faster and cheaper | e27 and more

Featherless.ai, a US-based serverless AI inference platform, has raised US$5 million in seed funding.

The investment comes from a notable list of global investors, including Airbus Ventures, 500 Global, Kickstart Ventures, HF0, Panache Ventures, and Oakseed Ventures.

With the new funding, Featherless.ai intends to advance research and development into next-generation AI architectures to lower inference costs, potentially enabling AI deployment on lower-cost hardware.