Despite competition from other startups like Deci, OctoML, and CoCoPie, Asaf claims that Clika has a technological advantage due to its AI approach to understanding different AI model structures and applying the best compression method for each unique model. The company, which raised $1.1 million in a pre-seed round last year, is currently pre-revenue and running a closed beta for a select few businesses.
Key takeaways:
- Ben Asaf and Nayul Kim founded Clika, a startup that provides a toolkit for companies to automatically "downsize" their internally developed AI models, reducing the amount of compute power they consume and speeding up their inferencing.
- Clika uses techniques such as quantization to shrink a model without interfering with its ability to perform a particular task and generates a report with potential improvements for the model.
- Despite competition from other startups like Deci, OctoML, and CoCoPie, Asaf claims that Clika has a technological advantage with its AI approach to understanding different AI model structures and applying the best compression method for each unique model.
- Clika raised $1.1 million in a pre-seed round last year and plans to pursue seed funding soon. The startup is currently pre-revenue, running a closed beta for a select few businesses.