SambaNova valued at $11B after $1B funding to accelerate on-prem AI inference

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SambaNova raised $1 billion in fresh financing led by General Atlantic (with Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price and Capital Group), boosting its valuation to $11 billion and fueling the rollout of its SN50 inference chips for on‑premise deployments. JPMorgan has adopted the company's systems for demanding enterprise AI workloads, while the startup—which earlier drew funding from Intel—continues to pursue a U.S. IPO around 2027 amid strong investor interest in AI-chip companies challenging Nvidia.
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