- Vsora raises $ 46 million to build Europe’s alternative to AI giants
- The Jotunn8 chip is aimed at inference with less power and higher performance
- French startup challenges Nvidia leadership in a training chips market
The French chips designer Vsora has raised $ 46 million in new funds, since it aims to offer Europe’s main alternative to the processors of people such as Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Google.
The startup based in Paris is betting on a personalized inference processor called Jotunn8, which plans to bring Silicon in the second half of 2025 using the production of 5 Nm in TSMC.
While the NVIDIA GPU dominate training workloads, Vsora points to inference with its chip that says it is faster and more efficient when it matters.
Ensure the technological sovereignty of Europe
The financing round was directed by OTIUM and a French family office, with an additional support of Omnes Capital, Adélie Capital and the European Fund of the Innovation Council.
Investors are supporting Vsora’s goal to forge a space in a market full of people and mostly non -European.
“In a market dominated by global giants such as Nvidia, Vsora is a unique opportunity for France and Europe, the world -class engineering talent home,” said Gaspard de Veyrac, director of Otium.
“With this financing, Vsora has the necessary tools to remodel the future of AI calculation and ensure a significant position in the global AI chips market.”
The Vsora chip is not trying to be all for everyone. Unlike GPUs, which are mainly built for training models, Jotunn8 is designed only for inference, so it focuses on the performance per watt, latency and cost per consultation.
The company states that Jotunn8 offers the performance of current solutions more than three times while using less than half of the power.
It points to 3,200 Teraflops of computing power and will be directed to work loads such as the generative chatgpt style, autonomous driving and edge devices.
“This financing marks a crucial moment for Vsora as we accelerate our mission of revolutionizing the AI files and guaranteeing the technological sovereignty of Europe in AI computer science,” said the founder and CEO of Vsora, Khaled Maalej.
“It will promote the completion of our technology and the launch of our production, which allows Vsora to play a crucial role as the only alternative to non -European chips designers. We are grateful for the confidence of our investors and hope to continue our collaboration with the leaders of the industry to bring our chip to the market.”
