On Thursday, Spanish startup Multiverse Computing introduced that it raised an infinite Series B spherical of €189 million (about $215 million) on the power of a know-how it calls “CompactifAI.”
CompactifAI is a quantum-computing impressed compression know-how that’s able to lowering the dimensions of LLMs by as much as 95% with out impacting mannequin efficiency, the corporate says.
Specifically, Multiverse provides compressed variations of well-known open supply LLMs – primarily small fashions – corresponding to Llama 4 Scout, Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 3.1 8B, Mistral Small 3.1. However, it’ll quickly launch a model of DeepSeek R1, with extra open supply and reasoning fashions coming quickly. Proprietary fashions from OpenAI and others should not supported.
It’s “slim” fashions, as the corporate calls them, can be found on Amazon Web Services or might be licensed for on-premises makes use of. The firm says its fashions are 4x-12x sooner than the comparable not-compressed variations, which interprets to 50%-80% discount in inference prices. For occasion, Multiverse says that its Lama 4 Scout Slim prices 10 cents per million tokens on AWS in comparison with Lama 4 Scout’s 14 cents.
The firm says that a few of its fashions might be made so small and power environment friendly they might be run on PCs, telephones, automobiles, drones and even the DIY-enthusiast’s favourite tiny PC, Raspberry PI. (We are all of the sudden imagining these fantastical Raspberry PI Christmas-light homes upgraded with LLM-powered interactive speaking Santas.)
Multiverse has some technical would possibly behind it. It was co-founded by CTO Román Orús, a professor on the Donostia International Physics Center in San Sebastián, Spain. Orús is understood for his pioneering work on tensor networks (to not be confused with all AI-related issues named Tensor at Google).
Tensor networks are computational instruments that mimic quantum computer systems however run on traditional computer systems. One of their major makes use of nowadays is compression of deep studying fashions.
Multiverse’s co-founder and CEO, Enrique Lizaso Olmos, additionally holds a number of mathematical levels and has been a university professor. He spent most of his profession in banking, greatest often called the previous deputy CEO of Unnim Bank.
The Series B was led by Bullhound Capital (which has backed firms like Spotify, Revolut, SupplyHero, Avito, Discord) together with participation of HP Tech Ventures, SETT, Forgepoint Capital International, CDP Venture Capital, Santander Climate VC, Toshiba and Capital Riesgo de Euskadi – Grupo SPR.
Multiverse says it has 160 patents and 100 prospects globally, together with Iberdrola, Bosch, and the Bank of Canada. With this funding, it has raised about $250M to this point.
