Anari AI announced raising $2 million in seed funding led by Earlybird, joined by Acequia Capital, Serbian Entrepreneurs, and Eric Ries.

Anari AI, a Novi Sad, Serbia-based chip producer, announced the completion of a $2 million seed funding round.

The money was raised from investors led by Earlybird, and joined by Acequia Capital, Serbian Entrepreneurs, and angel investor Eric Ries.

The new funding will be used to continue developing the platform and bring it to market.

Anari, founded in 2020 by Bogdan Vukobratovic, Jovan Stojanovic (CEO) and Stefan Sredojevic, built a software platform makes it possible to design personalized AI chips in the cloud with just one click. With this approach, companies are able to build and deploy AI solutions in weeks instead of 12-18 months, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional hardware development.

The platform is built on a unique Python-based programming framework, developed by Anari for chip design, that opens up new possibilities for hardware engineers and turns software engineers into hardware designers. The first configurable AI cloud chip from Anari is Thor X, which delivers 100x more efficient processing of 3D Point Cloud/Graph data structures compared to a high-end GPU.

The Anari platform for cloud chips can be used by companies across industries such as gaming, automotive and biotechnology to personalize their AI infrastructure with just one click.