Tenstorrent 获 6.2 亿美元估值，扩大开放权重 AI 芯片规模
Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
Tenstorrent，一家专注于推理的芯片初创公司，在 6.2 亿美元的估值下筹集了 1.5 亿美元的资金。该公司拒绝了来自 Intel 和 Qualcomm 的收购兴趣，并决定保持独立，以扩大其针对开放权重 AI 模型和视频生成的芯片规模。
Tenstorrent 作为 AI 芯片初创公司，获得了 6.2 亿美元的估值和 1.5 亿美元的融资，这反映了 AI 芯片市场的增长潜力以及 Tenstorrent 在该领域的竞争力。
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11:37 AM PDT · October 19, 2026
Tenstorrent, a chip startup focused on inference, has raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation. The round comes five months after the 10-year-old Nvidia challenger reportedly received acquisition interest from Intel and Qualcomm at valuations of as much as $5 billion.
The fresh round, which more than doubled Tenstorrent’s valuation from the $2.6 billion it fetched in late 2024, was led by Trace Capital, a new firm launched by Quiet Capital co-founder Ben Mahdavi, and Innovation X. Other backers included Cadence Ventures, Eclipse, Fidelity, SanDisk, and T. Rowe Price.
Jim Keller, a prominent microprocessor engineer and Tenstorrent CEO, told Bloomberg that the company decided to remain independent and raise more capital after it showed that its Galaxy servers could run DeepSeek models. The new capital will go toward scaling chips tailored for serving open-weight AI models and video generation.
Tenstorrent is part of a wave of AI hardware startups trying to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance. Among them is Etched, an AI chip maker that was fielding investment offers at valuations of $40 billion or more, TechCrunch reported earlier this month.
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