vLLM team officially announces startup: $150 million in funding, with Tsinghua University Special Scholarship recipient You Kaichao becoming a co-founder.

The team behind vLLM, the open-source framework for large model inference, officially announced the formation of its startup, Inferact, and raised $150 million in seed funding, valuing the company at $800 million. This round was led by a16z and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Sequoia Capital and other institutions, making it one of the largest seed funding rounds in history.