Gimlet Labs raised an undisclosed amount in a funding round backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with the article describing a16z as leading/backing the investment but not disclosing the amount, valuation, or whether it is a first or follow-on round. The company is building a multi-silicon inference cloud offering heterogeneous routing across CPUs, GPUs and purpose-built silicon behind a single API, claiming up to 10X throughput per watt, positioned as hyperscaler capex from five U.S. hyperscalers nears $1 trillion next year and NVIDIA lines up more than $500 billion for AI factories amid tightening power/rate limits. The article does not disclose specific metrics such as clients, revenue, pipeline or employee count, nor a detailed use of funds or expansion plan.