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# Jim Keller

CEO, Tenstorrent (as of 2026-10-19; source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/tenstorrent-hits-6-2b-valuation-to-scale-open-weight-ai-chips/).

Chip architect leading Tenstorrent, a non-Nvidia AI inference chip company valued at $6.2B in Oct 2026.

## In the news (1 event, newest first)

- 2026-10-19: [Tenstorrent raises $1.5B Series E at a $6.2B valuation to scale inference chips for open-weight models](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-19-tenstorrent-1-5b-series-e/), Business. Investor money is following the shift of AI spending toward inference, where cheap open-weight models such as DeepSeek's run on hardware other than Nvidia's.

Profile checked 2026-10-19.