A South African startup focused on compressing AI models to reduce computational weight and energy consumption.
South Africa-founded startup launches AI model with 10 million-token memory
Refiant AI launched Protea, a suite of large language models that can process up to 10 million tokens. Protea is available for free on Refiant's platform without a waitlist or approval process.
South Africa-founded Refiant AI raises $5 million to build leaner AI models
Refiant AI closed a $5 million seed round led by VoLo Earth Ventures to enhance its AI model compression platform. The startup's technology can compress a 120-billion-parameter model to run on a standard laptop with just 12GB of RAM, retaining 95-99% of its original performance.
