OpenInfer raises $8M for AI inference at the edge

OpenInfer has raised $8 million in funding to redefine AI inference for edge applications.

It’s the brain child of Behnam Bastani and Reza Nourai, who spent nearly a decade of building and scaling AI systems together at Meta’s Reality Labs and Roblox.

Through their work at the forefront of AI and system design, Bastani and Nourai witnessed firsthand how deep system architecture enables continuous, large-scale AI inference. However, today’s AI inference remains locked behind cloud APIs and hosted systems—a barrier for low-latency, private, and cost-efficient edge applications. OpenInfer changes that. It wants to agnostic to the types of devices at the edge, Bastani said in an interview with GamesBeat.

By enabling the seamless execution of large AI models directly on devices—from SoCs to the cloud—OpenInfer removes these barriers, enabling inference of AI models without compromising performance.

The implication? Imagine a world where your phone ...