Monti Saroya

Fast by Design: The Infrastructure Powering the Agentic Era | Rodrigo Liang | RAISE Summit 2026

Rodrigo Liang, Monti Saroya, Dylan Patel

SambaNova has secured the first close of a $1 billion funding round at an $11 billion valuation, establishing itself as JP Morgan's preferred inference provider for multi-trillion parameter models. The company differentiates its heterogeneous architecture by delivering up to 10x faster decode performance in full precision, avoiding the accuracy trade-offs of quantization while integrating with NVIDIA and Intel infrastructure. By leveraging a distribution network of 94 subsidiaries, SambaNova targets enterprise adoption through hybrid air-gapped and cloud solutions that prioritize data sovereignty and model choice over direct competition with general intelligence labs.