The announcement follows SambaNova’s record bookings and revenue at the close of 2025, reflecting accelerating demand for production-ready AI systems across financial services, telecommunications, energy and sovereign deployments worldwide.
Built for Agentic Production
Built on SambaNova’s Reconfigurable Data Unit architecture, SN50 delivers:
· Instant AI Experiences — Ultra-low latency enables real-time responsiveness for next-generation enterprise applications such as voice assistants.
· Unmatched Scale and Concurrency — Powers thousands of simultaneous AI sessions with consistent high performance.
· Breakthrough Model Capacity — A three-tier memory architecture unlocks support for 10 trillion plus parameter models and context lengths exceeding 10 million tokens for deeper reasoning and richer outputs.
· Maximum Efficiency at Scale — Higher hardware utilization lowers cost per token, driving stronger performance and return on investment.
· Smarter Memory, Smarter Efficiency — Resident multi-model memory and agentic caching optimize the three-tier architecture, reducing infrastructure costs for enterprise-scale AI deployments.
“The new SambaNova SN50 RDU changes the token economics of AI inference at scale. By delivering both high performance and high throughput with a chip that uses existing power and is air cooled, SambaNova is changing the game,” said Peter Rutten, Research Vice President, Performance Intensive Computing at IDC.
SoftBank Deploys SN50 within its AI Data Centers in Japan
SoftBank Corp. will be the first customer to deploy SN50 within its next-generation AI data centers in Japan. The deployment will power low-latency inference services for sovereign and enterprise customers across Asia-Pacific, supporting both open-source and proprietary frontier models with demanding latency and throughput requirements.
“With SN50, we are building an AI inference fabric for Japan that can serve our customers and partners with the speed, resiliency and sovereignty they expect from SoftBank,” said Hironobu Tamba, Vice President and Head of the Data Platform Strategy Division of the Technology Unit at SoftBank Corp. “By standardizing on SN50, we gain the ability to deliver world-class AI services on our own terms, with the performance of the best GPU clusters but with significantly improved economics and control.”
The SN50 deployment expands SambaNova’s existing relationship with SoftBank Corp., which already hosts SambaCloud to provide ultra-fast inference for developers in the region. By anchoring its newest clusters on SN50, SoftBank positions SambaNova as the inference backbone for its sovereign AI initiatives and large-scale agentic services.
SambaNova and Intel Plan Multi-Year Collaboration
SambaNova and Intel have entered into a planned multi-year strategic collaboration to deliver high-performance, cost-efficient AI inference solutions for AI-native companies, model providers, enterprises and government organizations worldwide. The collaboration aims to provide an alternative to GPU-centric solutions, offering optimized performance for leading open-source models with predictable throughput and total cost of ownership.
As part of the collaboration, Intel plans to make a strategic investment in SambaNova to accelerate the rollout of an Intel-powered AI cloud. The collaboration is expected to focus on three key areas:
· AI Cloud Expansion — Scaling SambaNova’s vertically integrated AI cloud built on Intel Xeon-based infrastructure and optimized for large language and multimodal models. The platform will deliver low-latency, high-throughput AI services supported by reference architectures, deployment blueprints and ecosystem partnerships.
· Integrated AI Infrastructure — Combining SambaNova systems with Intel CPUs, accelerators and networking technologies to power scalable, production-ready inference for reasoning, code generation, multimodal applications and agentic workflows.
· Go-to-Market Execution — Joint co-selling and co-marketing through Intel’s global enterprise, cloud and partner channels to accelerate adoption across the AI ecosystem.
Together, SambaNova and Intel aim to shape the next generation of heterogeneous AI data centers by integrating Intel Xeon processors, Intel GPUs, networking and storage technologies with SambaNova systems to address a growing inference market opportunity.
Raises More Than $350 Million Led by Vista and Cambium
The oversubscribed Series E funding round was led by Vista Equity Partners and Cambium Capital, with participation from Intel Capital.
New investors include Assam Ventures, Battery Ventures, First Data, Gulf Development Public Company Limited, Mayfield Capital, Saudi First Data, Seligman Ventures and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. Existing investors participating include A&E, 8Square, Atlantic Bridge, BlackRock, GV, Nepenthe, Nuri Capital and Redline Capital.
Mr. Sharaf Al Hariri, Chairman of First Data, stated that SambaNova forms a core part of First Data’s investment strategy to bring advanced AI technologies to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East. He emphasized that the investment supports high-performance, low-latency and sovereign-ready AI capabilities while benefiting from lower power requirements and compatibility with existing air-cooled data center environments. He added that the investment reflects First Data’s long-term commitment to diversifying its technology portfolio, strengthening innovation capabilities and delivering sustainable value to the region.
As agentic workloads expand, enterprises are recognizing that infrastructure optimized for training does not always meet production latency and cost requirements.
“We’re proud to be investing in SambaNova at such a pivotal time in the company’s growth,” said Monti Saroya, Partner at Vista Equity Partners. “SN50 is engineered for agentic AI systems that orchestrate multiple models and process requests in near real time more efficiently than traditional GPU-centric systems.”
Proceeds from the funding round will be used to expand SN50 production, scale SambaCloud and deepen enterprise software integrations.
About SambaNova
SambaNova is a provider of next-generation AI infrastructure, offering a full-stack platform that delivers high-performance AI inference for enterprises, NeoClouds, AI laboratories, service providers and sovereign AI initiatives worldwide. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Jose, California, SambaNova delivers chips, systems and cloud services that enable deployment of advanced AI models with strong performance, lower total cost of ownership and faster time to value.
For more information, visit sambanova.ai or follow SambaNova on X and LinkedIn.
Source: AETOSWire
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