Multiverse Computing Secures $215M to Slash AI Costs

Multiverse Computing Raises $215M to Revolutionize AI Costs

Spanish AI startup Multiverse Computing has secured a substantial $215 million in Series B funding. This investment will fuel the development and deployment of their innovative technology, CompactifAI.

CompactifAI: Shrinking LLMs and Slashing Costs

CompactifAI is a quantum-computing inspired compression technology. It reduces the size of Large Language Models (LLMs) by up to 95% without compromising performance. This translates to significant cost savings, with 50%-80% reductions in inference costs.

Multiverse offers compressed versions of popular open-source LLMs like Llama 4 Scout, Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 3.1 8B, and Mistral Small 3.1. Support for DeepSeek R1 and more open-source and reasoning models is coming soon. Proprietary models are not currently supported.

These "slim" models, as Multiverse calls them, are available on Amazon Web Services or can be licensed for on-premises use. For example, Multiverse claims its Llama 4 Scout Slim costs 10 cents per million tokens on AWS, compared to 14 cents for the standard version.

From Cloud to Edge: AI on Any Device

The company envisions these compressed models running on a variety of devices, from PCs and smartphones to cars, drones, and even Raspberry Pis. This opens exciting possibilities for edge computing and AI accessibility.

The Team Behind the Technology

Multiverse Computing boasts a strong technical foundation. Co-founder and CTO Román Orús, a professor at the Donostia International Physics Center, is renowned for his pioneering work on tensor networks, the computational tools behind CompactifAI.

CEO Enrique Lizaso Olmos brings extensive experience in mathematics and banking, having served as the former deputy CEO of Unnim Bank.

Funding and Future Growth

The Series B funding round was led by Bullhound Capital, with participation from HP Tech Ventures, SETT, Forgepoint Capital International, CDP Venture Capital, Santander Climate VC, Toshiba, and Capital Riesgo de Euskadi – Grupo SPR. Multiverse has now raised approximately $250 million to date.

With 160 patents and 100 global customers, including Iberdrola, Bosch, and the Bank of Canada, Multiverse Computing is poised to significantly impact the AI landscape.