AI & Enterprise

Lightbits launches KV cache engine to boost GPU performance

Lightbits Labs has launched its AI inference software engine, Infera, aimed at improving inference performance and cost efficiency. The company says Infera expands KV cache data beyond limited high-bandwidth memory attached to GPUs and targets large language model operations with long context windows or many concurrent sessions. It manages KV cache across GPU memory, DRAM and NVMe storage using predictive prefetching and supplies context in small blocks.

AI & Enterprise

Lightfield raises $47 million in Series A for AI agent CRM

Lightfield, which promotes itself as a CRM for AI agents, has raised $47 million in a Series A funding round. The company is pitching a CRM that AI agents can use directly as it targets Salesforce and HubSpot. Andreessen Horowitz led the round, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, Greylock, Maverick Capital, Audacious and Alumni Ventures.