General Compute, a new AI inference neocloud, has raised a $15 million seed round at a $60 million valuation led by FUSE VC, betting that specialised inference chips will outcompete GPUs as AI workloads shift from training to real-time agent and model deployment.
CEO Finn Puklowski and CTO Jason Goodison have secured $300 million worth of SambaNova’s forthcoming SN50 chips, which the company claims will deliver 600 to 700 tokens per second — roughly triple GPU speeds. The air-cooled chips require no new data centre infrastructure, allowing General Compute to pursue colocation deals with existing facilities and crypto miners repurposing idle hardware.
Investor Joe Hasselmann of Evercrest Capital Partners, an early Groq backer, drew parallels between the SambaNova-General Compute relationship and CoreWeave’s partnership with Nvidia, describing the arrangement as a mutual bet on each other’s growth.
