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Aug 3, 2026

London AI chip startup OLIX raises $312M Series B at $3.3B valuation

OLIX, a two-year-old London-based AI chip startup founded by 25-year-old school dropout James Dacombe, has raised $312 million in Series B funding at a $3.3 billion valuation, tripling its previous valuation. The round was led by Fundomo with participation from Arm, Hudson River Trading, and Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings.

Aug 3, 2026·8 sources
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  • ▪AI hardware designers are shifting toward rack-scale co-design, a strategy also pursued by Nvidia's Vera Rubin and AMD's Helios architectures.
  • ▪For 100-billion-parameter models, the DX-1 chip is designed to deliver over 10,000 tokens per second per user.
  • ▪Olix raised $312 million in a Series B funding round led by Fundomo, valuing the startup at $3.3 billion.

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