AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges
In Brief Posted: 11:34 AM PST · November 3, 2026 Image Credits:monsitj / Getty Images Marina Temkin AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges
简讯 发布时间：太平洋标准时间 2026 年 11 月 3 日上午 11:34 图片来源：monsitj / Getty Images Marina Temkin AI 推理初创公司 Fal 估值翻倍至 160 亿美元，需求激增。
Fal, a San Francisco-based startup that hosts and runs AI video, image, and audio models, has raised $1.3 billion in its latest funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Nvidia, Sound Ventures, and T. Rowe Price. The deal values Fal at $16 billion, double its $8 billion valuation in April, Bloomberg reported.
Fal 是一家总部位于旧金山的初创公司，主要托管和运行 AI 视频、图像和音频模型。该公司在最新一轮融资中筹集了 13 亿美元，由 Bessemer Venture Partners 领投，Nvidia、Sound Ventures 和 T. Rowe Price 参投。据彭博社报道，这笔交易使 Fal 的估值达到 160 亿美元，是其 4 月份 80 亿美元估值的两倍。
The startup announced its Series E and F rounds at the same time, noting that a combined $1.65 billion was raised across both. (Sequoia led the earlier round.) The latest round (Series F) comes amid soaring demand for inference services, the process of running an AI model that’s already been trained to generate outputs, particularly from customers relying on open source models.
该初创公司同时宣布了其 E 轮和 F 轮融资，并指出两轮融资总额为 16.5 亿美元。（红杉资本领投了前一轮融资。）最新一轮（F 轮）融资正值推理服务需求激增之际，推理是指运行已训练好的 AI 模型以生成输出的过程，尤其是对于依赖开源模型的客户而言。
Fal surpassed $800 million in annualized revenue earlier this year, Bloomberg’s report noted. Companies providing inference services, including Baseten, Fireworks AI, and Modal, have also been growing rapidly and raising large funding rounds at higher valuations. But their gross margins remain thin because of the high cost of buying or leasing compute, according to several people familiar with inference companies’ financials.
据彭博社报道，Fal 今年的年化收入已超过 8 亿美元。包括 Baseten、Fireworks AI 和 Modal 在内的提供推理服务的公司也一直在快速增长，并以更高的估值完成了大额融资。但据几位熟悉推理公司财务状况的人士透露，由于购买或租赁计算资源的成本高昂，它们的毛利率仍然很低。
Fal was co-founded in 2021 by Burkay Gur, a former Coinbase machine learning leader and Oracle engineer, and Gorkem Yurtseven, who was previously a developer at Amazon.
Fal 由 Burkay Gur 和 Gorkem Yurtseven 于 2021 年共同创立。Burkay Gur 曾是 Coinbase 的机器学习负责人和甲骨文工程师，而 Gorkem Yurtseven 此前曾是亚马逊的开发人员。