The RISC-V AI hardware startup announced the funding round on 19 October 2026.
On October 19, Tenstorrent announced it raised $1.5 billion in a Series E funding round, giving the startup a post-money valuation of $6.2 billion.
Tenstorrent develops Galaxy branded AI hardware and software designed to outperform Nvidia GPUs for inference workloads including large language models and AI video generation. The company builds its chips and supporting software using the open-source RISC-V processor architecture.
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