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EtchedEtched designs Sohu, a transformer-only ASIC chip built to accelerate AI inference workloads more efficiently than general-purpose GPUs like Nvidia's.
6 Pulse stories
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GradiumGradium builds real-time voice AI infrastructure — low-latency streaming speech-to-text, expressive text-to-speech, semantic turn detection, and voice agent frameworks for developers and enterprises.
3 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$800M
$100M
EtchedGradium
Last Valuation
$10.3B
EtchedGradium
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2022
Founded
2025
San Jose, California
HQ
Paris, France
Private
Status
Private
Etched investors
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen HorowitzJane StreetSK HynixStripesPeter Thiel/Thiel CapitalPrimary Venture PartnersPositive Sum Ventures
Gradium investors
NvidiaFirstMark CapitalEurazeoXavier NielDST Global PartnersEric SchmidtAmplify PartnersKorelya Capital
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