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Exclusive: A former Apple engineer thinks AI infrastructure is built for the wrong future. Investors just gave him $80 million to fix it
- Sail Research launched from stealth with $80M in funding (led by Kleiner Perkins) to build an inference platform purpose-built for long-running AI agents, trading real-time latency for much higher throughput.
- The company says customers see 3–10x cost improvements and Sail is already processing trillions of tokens per week for tasks like multi-hour code reviews.
- Big investors back the bet that token demand will explode, but Sail still faces competition from Together AI and the major labs (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic).
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