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Fortune
Lily Mae Lazarus

Exclusive: A former Apple engineer thinks AI infrastructure is built for the wrong future. Investors just gave him $80 million to fix it

Samin Menon (left) Neil Movva (right) (Credit: Courtesy of Sail)

For months, Kleiner Perkins partner Aditya Naganath had been mulling over his investing thesis that the next wave of AI wasn’t going to be a chatbot—it was going to be software that does the work autonomously, for hours at a time, across thousands of tasks at once. The trouble was, nobody had built the plumbing for it yet. Then he met Neil Movva.

“It felt obvious to both of us that you’re going to need a different, specific inference platform built for these long-running agents,” Naganath told Fortune.

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