UC Berkeley AI News & Updates

SGLang Spins Out as RadixArk at $400M Valuation Amid Inference Infrastructure Boom

January 21, 2026 23:24

RadixArk, a commercial startup built around the popular open-source SGLang tool for AI model inference optimization, has raised funding at a $400 million valuation led by Accel. The company, founded by former xAI enginee...

Databricks Co-founder Launches $100M AI Research Institute to Guide Beneficial AI Development

June 23, 2025 20:30

Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, announced the creation of Laude Institute with a $100 million personal pledge to fund independent AI research. The institute will operate as a hybrid nonprofit/for...