Juniper Networks and Recogni Announce Venture Funding and Collaboration for High Performance, Energy-Efficient and Cost-Effective Multimodal Generative AI Inference Systems | PR Newswire [Video]

Scalable, innovative GenAI solutions will support the largest AI models at unprecedented per-user performance while driving down energy demands and improving accuracy

, /PRNewswire/ — Juniper Networks® (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-Native Networking, and Recogni, the Generative AI Inference company, have jointly announced  Juniper’s investment in Recogni and an ongoing collaboration. Juniper has participated in Recogni’s $102 million Series C funding round, which has been co-led by Celesta Capital and GreatPoint Ventures.

The collaboration will focus on AI inference compute and will address the growing demand from hyperscalers, compute service providers and enterprises for a cost-effective, scalable, energy-efficient solution to run increasingly complex AI models across cloud environments and data centers. The innovation will leverage Recogni’s patented AI inference accelerator, based on Pareto math, which is designed from the ground up to optimize energy efficiency and model accuracy.

“The market for multimodal GenAI inference is accelerating rapidly and Recogni is at the forefront of exploring power efficiency without compromising performance …