doubleAI, officially AA-I Technologies, a Tel Aviv-based startup, has raised $220 million from Nvidia, Dell Technologies and others, SiliconANGLE's Maria Deutscher reported on October 19. The page does not name the funding round. CTech reported a valuation of more than $1 billion. Amnon Shashua, who earlier co-founded Mobileye, is CEO. The article names no other executives and includes no executive quotes.
What it builds
The company's product is Maxwell, which it calls a code execution model, primarily designed to make software more efficient. According to the company, Maxwell optimizes compiled binaries rather than source code, and it supports both GPUs and CPUs. The company plans to sell it to enterprises that want to reduce hardware usage for AI workloads.
The company's claims
All of the following are company claims. Maxwell rewrote parts of Nvidia's cuGraph library, reportedly speeding up 55% of its algorithms by at least two times. It optimized the pandas library, reportedly improving its PDS-H benchmark performance by 38 times, and reportedly doubled the video generation speed of the LTX-2.5 world model. The company also says it found a chess position where 63 moves give check, beating the previous 60-move record, and that an internal agent made a graph theory discovery paired with a Lean file for verification.
Other reporting
The Wall Street Journal reported that doubleAI plans to buy 1,000 Nvidia B300 Blackwell GPUs. SiliconANGLE places the company alongside recent AI math efforts from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Caution
The benchmark gains and discoveries have not been independently verified in the article, and the valuation is a second-hand report.
Source: SiliconANGLE. This is an AI Business Watch summary of the original report.