Prime Intellect acquires Moondream; hires co-founders Jay Allen and Vik Korrapati to lead inference work at $1B AI cloud firm
Prime Intellect has acquired Seattle-founded vision AI startup Moondream, bringing its founders and inference technology into the $1 billion AI cloud company to speed up model inference and expand vision and agent capabilities.
Prime Intellect acquires Moondream; Photon engine and founders Vik Korrapati and Jay Allen join to scale inference
Prime Intellect has acquired Moondream and its Photon inference engine, bringing founders Vik Korrapati and Jay Allen into Prime to scale inference and multimodal vision work; Moondream 3.1 is available via Prime Inference and Moondream will remain a brand for small, efficient multimodal models.
Seattle Startup Moondream Raises $4.5M Pre-Seed to Develop Edge-Friendly Vision Language Model
Seattle startup Moondream raised $4.5 million in a pre-seed round to develop a 1.6 billion-parameter vision language model capable of running on edge devices. Led by CEO Jay Allen, an AWS veteran, the company aims to integrate vision AI into various industries including transportation, retail, and manufacturing.
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